Wonderfully horrible. 
Eating the limb of the living is a big no-no, the only dietary restriction that Jews consider to be binding on gentiles.
I don’t know but in emergency situations I think you get a pass 1 Sam 21
Hmmmm…how do we define “living,” here? Would brain death suffice?
I imagine that “living” is defined the same way here, in the commandment against killing, and in the commandment against eating carrion, so I think that no matter how you try to finangle things, you’ll end up falling afoul of at least one of those three. I.e., if “brain-dead” counts as alive, then you’re eating the limb of the living when you eat his leg. If brain-dead is dead and you caused it, then you’re guilty of murder. And if brain-dead is dead and you didn’t cause it, then he’s carrion.
Yep, intelligent beings are not kosher. No eating the salmon people of of blorgzon 5.
Chronos is correct about the restriction on eating a limb from a living animal being considered binding on all people.
Do we know that, though? What’s your argument? First of all, are the salmon people of Blorgzon 5 halachically people or creatures? If they’re creatures, then they’re kosher if they fit the category and treif if they don’t. If they’re people, then it’s harder, because people aren’t necessarily treif (but they may be). You’re just not allowed to eat them for other reasons.
Anyone else thinking of The Lifeboat Sketch?
‘I’d rather eat Johnson, sir.’
‘Well, I um…’
‘What’s the matter with Johnson, sir?’
‘Well, he’s not kosher.’
‘Depends how we kill him, sir.’
I read a book that said that Jewish dietary laws have a big emphasis on purity–one does not eat anything that can appear to be in two different “zones.” A faun is half human, half goat, so even thought goats are clean, eating human is not, making the whole animal unclean.
I also remember that the Narnia series itself has a little bit about Kosher, in a way: Puddleglum and Eustace are disgusted by the fact that they are eating a Talking Animal. It seems to me that they think of it as cannibalism, and that cannibalism is unclean. I would think this would apply even more to the even more human fauns.
Ignorance faught. Ifor some reason, I was under the impression that nymphs were the female equivalents of fauns and satyrs.
Recently, they found out that giraffe milk curdles, and a group of vets in Israel declared that giraffes are officially kosher. Unfortunately, because the neck is so long, no one is quite sure how to slaughter them.
First the shochet gets a ladder. . .
Hmm. I’m (obviously) no rabbi, but I’m inclined to say that if you can’t figure out a decent way to kill something, you probably shouldn’t eat it.
Graham Chapman especially preferred eating Johnson.
Maus Magill:
That’s a commonly-repeated myth, but the halacha is that anywhere on the neck will do.
However, my sister mentioning that at the Yom Tov table last year Rosh Hashana led to a great moment between me and my father. She set us up by saying “the problem is that no one knows the right place to slaughter it”
I told her, “That’s a myth, we do know the right place to slaughter a giraffe.”
“Where?” she asked.
At the exact same time, my father and I responded, “Africa.”
What if Mr. Tumnus stepped on a land mine and his limbs were no longer attached but the rest of him was still living?
I thought all milk curdled but they didn’t really teach us that in vet. tech. school. What would keep certain animal’s milk from curdling? Doesn’t goat’s milk curdle, isn’t that how cheese is made?
Wouldn’t that be carrion?
I think for most contexts, probably including Narnia, you were correct, Maus. The original classical conception of satyrs was exclusively male, whereas nymphs (including tree-nymph dryads and water-nymph naiads) were exclusively female. In some mythologies, the offspring of a satyr-nymph union would be a satyr boy or nymph girl, to be raised by the parent of the same gender (and cohorts). Mr. Tumnus mentions his father but not his mother.
Yes, and goats are kosher.
I seem to recall, though, hearing of some group of Asian nomads making mare’s-milk cheese, and horses (due to their non-cloven hooves) are not kosher.
Bet they’d be good on a bagel with some schmear, though.
Vice Adm. Sir John Cunningham: “…and may I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit, but all new ratings are warned that if they wake up in the morning and find any toothmarks at all anywhere on their bodies, they’re to tell me immediately so that I can immediately take every measure to hush the whole thing up. And, finally, necrophilia is right out…”.