Paris Loves Balls ... of Matzah

16. Hey #9 Bunnie: to be edible an animal must have a completely cloven hoof and chew a cud. Horses are not Kosher because of their hoof and pigs do not chew a cud.

Posted at 2:06PM on May 23rd 2008 by Bill

17. Why is she going to eat?? She is just going to puke it back up anyway! Binge..purge...

Posted at 2:39PM on May 23rd 2008 by Bart

18. Check out my good friend Shelley from Houston on her reality show.

Posted at 3:11PM on May 26th 2008 by htown

19. WTF Paris are you going you be shalom shabbos whew God forbid if you ever were to convert you would be an embaressment to our Jewish communities.. mozel tov Biatch!

Posted at 3:51PM on May 23rd 2008 by englishchickbackinnyc

20. since we're talking about kosher food...

did you hear that the largest kosher slaughterhouse in america was raided?

in the largest immigration raid in american history over 390 illegal workers were arrested in postville iowa at agriprocessors inc.

federal authorities also alledged a methamphetamine lab was operating at the meat packing plant and that employees carried weapons to work.

there have also been other issues of food safety, worker safety, water polloution, and more.

look up agriprocessors on google or wikipedia for more info.

.now paris doesn't seem so bad... does she?

Posted at 5:03PM on May 23rd 2008 by bobby ozone

21. Paris haters were raised by weasels.
Princess Paris is sweet and cuddly and talented and beautiful.

800 Pound Gorilla

Posted at 5:50PM on May 23rd 2008 by 800 Pound Gorilla

22. Kosher means "clean" right?? Then how can a nasty dirty skank like paris be around the food and it remain clean??

Posted at 6:21PM on May 23rd 2008 by Big Bear

23. Sorry Bunnie, but you got some of that wrong....some cloven footed animals are forbidden (like pigs), but we are allowed to eat cows, deer, antelope, bison, sheep, goats...because it chews the cud.

Kosher pertains to the way an animal is slaughtered, and has nothing to do with if a sick animal is raised in the same herd as well animals, Veterinarians are always looking over flocks and herds.

Here's the truth on the matter:

Leviticus, Deuteronomy and Unclean Meat

In the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, God reveals His laws concerning what kind of meats are clean and unclean for food. His servants are commanded not to eat any unclean meat.

In both of these books, there is a “meat” chapter, in which God explains a fundamental distinction regarding animal flesh. This distinction is the same as that which Noah understood about the animals that he took into the ark.

Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 identify which categories of quadrupeds, fish and insects may be eaten. God’s instruction is emphatic and leaves no room for personal interpretation. The Bible repeatedly records God stating that certain animals are “unclean to you.” Sometimes He adds, “you may not eat of them.” Other times He says, “You shall not eat any abominable thing,” and still other times He says, “They shall be an abomination unto you.” (Certain translations use the word detestable in place of abomination.) Finally, He often commands not to even “touch their dead carcass.”

Take the time to read these two chapters carefully! Notice how many times God repeats Himself for emphasis. There can be no mistaking the clarity of His instruction.

These chapters give examples from each of these three categories. Twenty examples of birds are given, but only of those that may not be eaten (Lev. 11:13-19). Reptiles (vs. 29-30), vermin (vs. 41-42) and other creeping things may not be eaten—except certain jumping (“leaping”) insects (vs. 21-22). Many kinds of fish are clean and many kinds of fish and sea creatures are not. Genesis 1:31 explains that everything God created “was good”—but just not for food!

Isaiah 66:3-4 shows that people sometimes used a mixture of clean and unclean animals in sacrifice to God. Throughout the Bible, we see that none of the creatures God calls unclean were ever acceptable to Him in sacrifice.

Isaiah 65:2-5 and 66:17 show how strongly God feels about those who reject His instruction not to eat swine’s flesh and other abominable things. Most of you are familiar with the saying “holier than thou.” It comes directly from Isaiah 65:5 and is a phrase that people who eat unclean meat, including swine’s flesh, were using to excuse their actions.

God is blunt! He considers these attitudes and practices to be a noxious “smoke” entering His “nose” all day long, and that they “provoke Him to anger.”

A comprehensive list of clean and unclean creatures is included at the end of this article. However, a brief description of birds, sea creatures and land animals is critical to understand the distinctions between clean and unclean animals.
Birds

The Bible does not provide a simple means of identifying clean birds, as it does for other creatures. Through a careful comparison of all the unclean birds with those shown to be clean, it is apparent that all clean birds have six distinct features that are not, in every case, common to unclean birds. These features can be used for determining the status of birds not mentioned in the Bible.

The six features for clean birds are: (1) They have a crop or craw; (2) they have a gizzard with a double lining; (3) their feet have an elongated middle toe and a hind toe; (4) their toes are spread so that they have three front toes on one side of a perch and the hind toe on the opposite side; (5) they cannot be birds of prey; (6) they catch food thrown to them while they are in the air but they first bring it to the ground and divide it, before eating it. Unclean birds eat food in the air or tear it apart on the ground and eat as they tear.
Fish and Sea Creatures

Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 explain that only fish with fins and scales are clean for food. This eliminates all types of shellfish, including crabs, crayfish, shrimp, lobsters, clams, oysters, and other mussels, eels, squids and octopuses. Many of these creatures lack fins and must remain on the bottom to feed.

Some sea creatures have fins but no scales. Examples are sharks, whales, catfish and many others.
Land Animals

As with sea creatures, there are two basic criteria for determining how clean and unclean land animals are distinguished from one another.

Clean animals “part the hoof…and chew the cud.” The scripture says that they are “cloven-footed.” Pigs are cloven-footed, but do not chew the cud. The hyrax (a type of rodent) chews the cud but has toes and claws.
Disease and Filth

We have seen that God has called certain creatures abominable or detestable. He does this for a reason!

Consider the nature of mice and rats. They mark their trail to a food source with urine droplets carrying a deadly pathogen known as Toxoplasmosis. It only reproduces in felines. It remains dormant in the bodies of many mammals—especially rodents—until they are eaten by humans. This pathogen kills, blinds or causes crippling brain damage to unborn babies.

Estimates show that sixty-five to eighty percent of the world’s population have contracted it by middle age. God knew this could happen and prohibited keeping a vessel of food touched by any mouse, mole, or creeping thing. The Israelites were to break any vessel that was touched and throw away all of its contents (Lev. 11:33-34). Yet statistics today show that we systematically tolerate small amounts of mouse droppings in our food supply.

Rabbits carry a less common disease called Tularemia (rabbit fever). Those who eat and handle rabbits are susceptible to contracting this sometimes fatal disease.

Clams often rest at the mouths of rivers and ingest sewage flowing past them. People who eat such clams are eating many types of concentrated toxins that often result in death to those who do this.

God’s laws work. Mankind could avoid much illness if His instructions were followed and His warnings heeded!
Scavengers

Most of the creatures identified as unclean are actually scavengers. God designed them to be “garbage collectors”—a kind of “environmental cleanup crew.” These scavengers are capable of ingesting and processing tremendous amounts of poison and waste in short periods of time.

Some scavengers, such as catfish, crabs and lobsters, are bottom-feeders. Others, like vultures and crows, eat dead, rotting flesh. This assists in the breakdown of organic matter and bacteria, so that they do not remain toxic or dangerous to the environment.

Pigs can eat rattlesnakes and have often been used to clear areas where golf courses are planned. Anything a pig eats turns to flesh in approximately six hours. Cows require twenty-four or more. Hogs actually have specially designed pus ducts located above their hooves to regularly drain poisons from their bodies. They carry a number of viruses and diseases, including trichina worms, which, if ingested by humans, can cause the painful and sometimes fatal disease known as Trichinosis. Also, pig flesh is high in cholesterol, which is one of the first things doctors tell patients with coronary artery disease to avoid in their diets.

Misguided mankind has domesticated pigs for food and put them in pigsties, literally forcing them to wallow in their own filth. This can cause their pus ducts to become plugged. Thus, those people who eat them ingest even more poison than God ever intended even filthy pigs to carry!

While many scavengers are far from beautiful, these creatures actually demonstrate, in their own way, the perfect planning and creative genius of God!
What About Blood And Fat?

God strictly prohibits the consumption of the blood of any flesh (Lev. 17:10-14). This prohibition is emphasized throughout the Bible (Acts 15:20, 29; 21:25). God says that the life is in the blood. It carries away various toxins, viruses and bacteria for elimination.

God also forbids eating fat (Lev. 3:17; 7:23). Animals and humans store poisons and viruses in their fat. When people eat fat, they are ingesting additional poisons. (The fat of clean fowl is not expressly forbidden. The fat or oil of clean fish is not mentioned.)

We should be aware of one side note. While the expression “to eat the fat” is sometimes used in the Bible (Gen. 45:18; Neh. 8:10), it has a figurative meaning. It means to enjoy the best of something good. This statement does not counter God’s instruction in other places.

Posted at 11:58PM on May 23rd 2008 by Bunnie got it wrong

24. General List of Clean and Unclean Creatures

Clean Birds: All Song Birds, Chicken, Dove, Duck, Geese, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, Pigeon, Quail and Turkey

Unclean Birds: Aquatic/Wading Birds, Buzzard, Carrion, Condor, Coot, Cormorant, Crow, Eagle, Falcon, Flamingo, Hawk, Heron, Hoopoe, Kite, Magpie, Ostrich, Owl, Swan, Parrots, Pelican, Raven, Roadrunner, Seagull, Vulture, Woodpecker

Clean Fish: Albacore, Alewives, Anchovies, Black Drum, Bluebacks, Bluebill Sunfish, Bluefish, Blue Runner, Bonitos, Boston Bluefish, Bowfin, Buffalofish, Butterfish, Carp, Chub, Cod, Common Sucker, Crappies, Crevalle, Flounder, Fresh Water Mullet, Frost Fish, Grouper, Grunt, Gulf Pike, Haddock, Hake, Halibut, Hardtail, Herring, Ice fish, Jack, Kingfish, Long Nose Sucker, Mackerel, Menhaden, Mullet, Muskeilunge, Northern Sucker, Orange Roughy, Pickerels, Pig Fish, Pike, Pilchard, Pollack, Pompano, Porgy, Red Drum, Red Horse, Red Snapper, Red Striped Sucker, Redfin, Redfish, Robalo, Salmon, Sardine, Scup, Sea Bass, Sergeant Fish, Shad, Sheepshead, Silver Hake, Silverside, Smelt, Snook, Striped Bass, Trout, Tuna, Weakfish, White Fish, White Sucker, Whiting and Yellow Perch

Unclean Sea Creatures: Abalone, Bullhead, Catfish, Clam, Crab, Crayfish, Dolphin, Eel, Conch, Lobster, Manatee, Mussel, Oyster, Porpoise, Scallop, Seal, Shark, Shrimp, Squid, Sturgeon, Turbot, Turtle, Walrus, Whale

Clean Land Animals: Antelope, Bison, Brahma, Buffalo, Caribou, Cattle, Deer, Eland, Elk, Gazelle, Giraffe, Goat, Ibex, Kudu, Moose, Musk Ox, Oryx, Ox, Pronghorn, Reindeer, Sheep, Water Buffalo, Wildebeest, Yak, Zebu

Unclean Land Animals: Anteater, Armadillo, Aardvark, Bat, Bear, Beaver, Cat, Camel, Chipmunk, Coney, Coyote, Dog, Donkey, Elephant, Fox, Gopher, Ground Hog, Hare, Hedge Hog, Hippo, Horse, Hyena, Hyrax, Jackel, Koala, Kangaroo, Lemur, Lion, Lizard, Lynx, Marmoset, Mole, Mouse, Opossum, Panda, Peccary, Pig, Platypus, Porcupine, Prairie Dog, Primates, Rabbit, Raccoon, Rat, Rhinoceros, Skunk, Sloth, Snakes, Squirrel, Tiger, Warthog, Woodchuck, Wolf, Zebra

Clean Insects: Cricket, Grasshopper and Katydid

Amphibians: All unclean

Posted at 11:58PM on May 23rd 2008 by A list of what's edible by Biblical Standards

25. Bunnie, you're not Jewish, and you're not even close to knowing what you're talking about. I don't know where you got your information, but you're wrong on 99% of everything.... the only part you got ALMOST right is about the ritual method of slaughter and ensuring blood does not pool in the flesh. Beyond that you're wrong about everything.

Dairy dishes do not include fish, no Jew or anyone observing proper food laws would consider eating bologna because it is made with blood and fat, both of which are forbidden.

We're not limited to rye and challah, we also eat pumpernickle, white, whole wheat and everything other grain bread.

Please don't comment any more on things you know nothing about, because you sound meshuga.

Posted at 12:08AM on May 24th 2008 by Bunnie is so wrong

26. BOTH OF THESE TWO PEOPLE LOOK BORED WITH EACH OTHER...AS THEY SHOULD BE, THEY SHARE NOTHING IN COMMON. NOT CHILDHOOD, NOT MORAL CONTENT, NOR ETHICS. THOSE WHO KNOW BENJI KNOW WHAT A GREAT GUY HE IS, AND WE STILL AWAIT THE GREAT WAKE UP....ANY DAY NOW...ANY DAY NOW.....LISTEN TO ME BENJI..YOU WILL WAKE UP...TRY NOT TO SCREAM WHEN YOU REALIZE JUST WHO YOU HAVE BEEN WITH...GET TO THE CLINIC...ALL IS FORGIVEN...WE WILL PAY FOR THE MOUTHWASH...AND SOAP ..JUST WAKE UP....

Posted at 6:36PM on May 24th 2008 by iliveinyourbasement