# Can kosher jews it a mulefoot hog?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2010, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-kosher-jews-it-a-mulefoot-hog/554265 "2010-09-19T07:56:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-kosher-jews-it-a-mulefoot-hog/554265/41 "2010-09-21T03:18:40Z")

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**Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-kosher-jews-it-a-mulefoot-hog/554265/42 "2010-09-21T03:46:50Z")

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Pigs are specifically said in the Bible to not chew their cud, so I don’t think that would be allowed for them, but it might potentially work for other animals. I think, though, that the clean/unclean categorization applies to types of animal, not individuals, so even if an individual animal of such a type could be made to chew its cud, it would still be of an unclean kind.

And isn’t there all sorts of disease risk in doing that, anyway?

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