Study 10:  Clean and Unclean Meats

Subject: Clean and Unclean Meats
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MEAT:

• Beef

• Lamb

• Goat

• Hart

• Roebuck

• Deer

• Antelope

• Ox

• Mountain sheep

• Buffalo

• Chicken

• Dove

• Duck

• Goose

• Grouse

• Guinea fowl

• Partridge

• Peafowl

• Pheasant

• Pigeon

• Prairie chicken

• Ptarmigan

• Quail

• Sagehen

• Sparrow (and other songbirds)

• Swan

• Teal

• Turkey
  
  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.

MEAT:

Pork (including lard)

Ham

Bacon

Pork-sausage

Rabbit

Dogs

Possums

Snakes

Rats

Skunks

Lizards

Spiders

Hyenas

Horses

Mice

FISH:

• Abalones

• Bullheads

• Catfish

• Clams

• Crabs

• Crayfish

• Eel

• Lobster

• Mussel

• Octopus

• Oysters

• Scallop

• Shark

• Shrimp

• Snails

• Squid

• Sturgeon

• Swordfish

• Whale

FOWL:

• Roadrunners

• Woodpeckers

• Parrots

• Gulls

• all others not specifically listed as clean.

OTHER:

Jell-O & Marshmallows (usually contain pork-based gelatin), any saltine cracker that states it uses animal shortening (usually lard), and anything else that states it uses animal shortening.

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