Clean and Unclean Meats

BIBLICALLY CLEAN MEAT, FISH AND FOWL

MEAT:

  • Beef

  • Lamb

  • Goat

  • Hart

  • Roebuck

  • Deer

  • Antelope

  • Ox

  • Mountain sheep

  • Buffalo

FISH:

  • Albacore

  • Anchovies

  • Bluebill Sunfish

  • Bluefish

  • Bowfin

  • Buffalofish

  • Butterfish

  • Carp

  • Chubs

  • Cod

  • Crappies

  • Flounder

  • Fresh water mullet

  • Groupers

  • Grunts

  • Haddock

  • Hake

  • Halibut

  • Herring

  • Kingfish

  • Mackerel

  • Mullet

  • Pike

  • Pilchards (sardines)

  • Red snapper

  • Redfish

  • Salmon

  • Sea Bass

  • Smelt

  • Striped Bass

  • Trouts

  • Tunas

  • White Fish

  • Yellow Perch

FOWL:

  • 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.

BIBLICALLY UNCLEAN MEAT, FISH AND FOWL

    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:

Albatross
Bat
Bittern
Buzzard
Condor
Coot
Cormorant
Crane
Crow
Cuckoo
Eagle
Flamingo Grebe
Grosbeak
Gull
Hawk
Heron
Kite
Lapwing
Loon
Magpie
Osprey
Ostrich
Owl
Parrot
Pelican
Penguin
Plover
Rail
Raven
Roadrunner
Sandpiper
Seagull
Stork
Swallow
Swift
Vulture
Water hen
Woodpecker
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.

IF IN DOUBT, AVOID ANYTHING NOT SPECIFICALLY LISTED AS CLEAN