Clean animals

Clean sea inhabitants

“Clean are those animals and fish that have fins or scales. This includes fish such as salmon, perch, trout, whiting, carp, and many others” (Deuteronomy 14:9, Leviticus 11:9)

1. Salmon
In the sea, salmon mainly feeds on herring and sprat. Salmon belongs to carnivorous fish species that feed on small invertebrates and zooplankton at an early age.

2. Carp

Carp feeding areas are rich in plant and animal food, water vegetation, mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and other small organisms.

Unclean sea inhabitants

“And all those that do not have fins and scales, do not eat: they are unclean to you” (Deuteronomy 14:10). These are sharks, swordfish, catfish, whales, dolphins, shrimp, crabs, lobsters, sea mollusks, oysters, and many others. According to scientists, God did not randomly forbid eating such water inhabitants.

Doctors claim that such types of fish and crustaceans can accumulate significant amounts of heavy metals, as well as contain natural poisonous substances. They can be harmful to humans.

1. Catfish

These fish are called river sanitarians. Catfish eat not only small and weakened fish, but also crayfish, worms, mollusks, frogs, small waterfowl, and various food waste.

2. Swordfish

Swordfish are infected with many parasites. Some worms in them reach 3 meters in length.

3. Shrimp, crabs, crayfish

They are scavengers. They feed on all kinds of rubbish found on the bottom, including dead aquatic animals and drowned people. Therefore, they can act as carriers of dangerous diseases, such as typhoid fever and hepatitis. And they contain carcinogenic substances.

4. Oysters and mussels

Oysters are considered a delicacy. But they actively and effectively clean the water, eating excess mud and plankton, as well as sediments at the bottom. In the process of life, oysters and mussels pass huge amounts of water through themselves, thereby absorbing all the chemicals from it. They can accumulate poison - saxitoxin.

Clean birds

Clean birds include those from the chicken, turkey, pigeon family – all that have a crop. Ducks also belong to clean birds.

1. Ducks

Ducks eat insects, moss, grass, algae, and aquatic plants, as well as small fish.

2. Pigeons

These birds eat grains, spinach, carrots, sorrel, clover, and other crops and grasses that are soft and juicy.

Unclean birds

“From the birds, avoid these (do not eat them, they are unclean): eagle, vulture, and sea eagle, owl, pelican, heron, every crow with its kind, ostrich, screech owl, seagull, and hawk with its kind, swan… (Leviticus 11:13-19).

1. Vultures, seagulls, crows

They belong to scavengers, as they kill weakened and sick birds and small animals. They feed on dead birds and other fallen animals.

2. Hawks, owls, pelicans

They consume small and medium-sized mammals, birds, insects, rats, frogs.

Clean animals

“It is allowed to eat beef, deer, buffalo, as well as goat, sheep, oryx, giraffe meat. (Leviticus 11:3, Deuteronomy 14:3-6)
Goats, sheep, roe deer, deer, cows – herbivores. Moreover, they carefully select the grass they eat.

Note that animal blood is also not suitable for food. In Leviticus 7:22–24, it is said that we should not consume the fat and blood of the above-mentioned animals in food, as well as those animals that died a natural death or were killed by another animal.

Unclean animals

Here God tells us not to consume the meat of animals such as pigs, rabbits, camels, and horses.

1. Camels

They are herbivorous animals, but they mainly feed on thorny plants, dry grass, and bushes.

2. Rabbits

We were very surprised here, because rabbit meat is recommended even for children with allergies to many products. Speaking of the harmfulness of rabbit meat, it contains a source of purine, which turns into uric acid. Depositing in joints and tendons, it causes arthritis, gout, neuro-arthritic diathesis in children up to one year old.

3. Horses

The horse feeds on grass, grains, and root vegetables. By consuming this animal`s meat, we put our heart, liver, and other organs at risk.

4. Pigs

The pig is omnivorous. It eats roots, worms, carrion, small animals, including its own offspring. Doctors know that there is a connection between pork that humans consume and liver diseases. These diseases affect even children.

As you can see, everything has a scientific explanation. Foods from some animals, fish, and birds can indeed harm your body. However, we do not think that if you eat them in small amounts, something terrible will happen. Modern technologies must be taken into account. For example, the same oysters are mostly brought to our country not from seas and oceans, but grown in special pools. Naturally, there are no impurities and large amounts of chemical waste in them.

What food to consume – is each person`s personal matter. Some follow the Bible`s recommendations, while others their personal convictions. Tell us in the comments how you view the division of animals into clean and unclean.