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Back in the day, without proper health guidelines, banning the eating of pork was a really good idea.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
Same goes for shellfish - unrefridgeated it can go nasty quickly, and if you live in a hot environment that's gonna be even faster.
I grew up on the coast, and my parents always had this rule to never eat/cook/serve shellfish that weren't fished (shellfished?) same day or yesterday.
♫ If you wanna get a tapeworm, eat some pork! ♫
~~While true from a health standpoint, isn't the idea of religious food prohibitons being based on health somewhat contentious~~?
~~I thought that Jews didn't eat them because they have cloven hooves and they don't chew their cud~~.~~
Edit: I read the question, then still went on my own tangent because I find the origin of religious taboos interesting. Apologies
Right, isn't that the point of the question? What old time things did we do for one reason (cloven hooves) that turned out to be right for completely different reasons (health and safety)
Yes, you are correct. I apparently went on a tangent of my own.
Oh, they likely weren't based on health, but that still didn't make it a bad idea. :)
Yes, I erroneously extrapolated your comment to include why it was banned.
they likely weren't based on health?
That was how the put them in buckets.
But I think it's at least as likely as not that whoever wrote that rule chose those buckets to be "unclean" because people got more sick more often. "I got sick once after eating it" is still one of the biggest reasons some people don't like seafood. Your brain is very good at turning single bad events into "don't touch this" if there isn't a body of safe interactions to fall back to.