Animal meats banned in Judaism vs Islam

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love the font color choice of blue on blue and green on green
- There is no coolguides about color contrast I guess.

Mice (when dead)

So it's only ok to eat a mouse alive?

Chew softly, you don't want the mouse to die before you swallow it
- The mice are cousins of Lemmiwinks.

Not eating random animals because of religion is such a stupid concept

Like, there is no big difference between a camel and a cow

I say that as a vegan, which is a choice that makes sense in comparison ;)

There probably is (believed to be, at the time) a difference. Most of these rules aren't really spiritual. They're about health. Most of the time the banned animals are thought to be dirty and spread disease. Pigs, for example, because of their proximity to humans, as well as small enclosures, often carry diseases that are harmful to people. That's why it's frequently banned in religions.
This is well before germ theory or anything though, so they're just guesses based on trends. They're sometimes wrong, but they were trying to create rules to keep people healthy.
- Health or culture more than religion in some cases. Same reason we don’t eat horses, cats, and dogs in the west. They’re companion species for us the same as some of these are for them.
- Yes for sure. But well the border between science and religion should always be updated and moved

Hol' up, do jews not follow leviticus 11:6?

The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you.

There goes my plan to solve the Gaza Crisis with my world famous pork ribs bbq....

If I recall correctly, all of these rules go out the window when your health is at stake.
The luxury pork ribs has so much more eagle
- Awww, don't be sad, my parents are paying and their incredibly rich.

This reminds me of the time the Catholic Church declared capybaras fish

Or beavers.

why would anyone even try to eat a scorpion?

Good texture tbh but I am aware I might be weird for this one
I mean, they do kind of resemble lobster or crayfish, which are delicious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_and_abstinence_in_the_Catholic_Church

The Catholic Church observes the disciplines of fasting and abstinence (from meat) at various times each year.

The current, commonly accepted U.S. rules, in effect as such for a decade or more, taken directly from the current U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Fast and Abstinence page are:[45][9]
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence.
For members of the Latin Catholic Church, the norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards.

While the rules of abstinence generally only allow seafood, there are a few exceptions. In parts of South America, especially in Venezuela, capybara meat is popular during Lent and Holy Week; in response to a question posed by French settlers in Quebec in the 17th century, beaver was classified as an exception, as it classified the swimming creature with fish.[23][24][25] Similarly unusual classifications of "fish" for fur traders near Detroit have led to a local tradition of eating muskrat during Lent.[26][27] The Archbishop of New Orleans said that "alligator is considered in the fish family" in 2010.[28][29][30] The legal basis for the classification of capybara, beaver, and muskrat as fish probably rests with the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, which bases animal classification as much on habit as anatomy.[31]

The Filet-O-Fish was introduced by McDonald's to accommodate Catholics who abstained from meat on Fridays.[16][1

Jews don't eat chicken?

Every bird is a bird of prey. Just let them get hungry enough.
- Naw chickens don’t need to be hungry enough, they’ll do it just for fun.

Apparently the philosophical basis behind the prohibitions itself differs. IIRC, if someone hypothetically engineered a vegetable including pig genes, it would be kosher but not halal.