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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by NewJazz on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:23PM (#45304796)
Leviticus rightfully instructs you not to eat bats, but it seems to mistake them for special birds rather than mammals.
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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by nyeah on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:18PM (#45306052)
There can't be much meat on a bat anyway.
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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by soperj on Friday September 19, 2025 @05:27PM (#45306848)
there's not much on a snail either, but they're still delicious.
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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by nyeah on Monday September 22, 2025 @08:04AM (#45332241)
They're fine. I wouldn't put snail up there with bat.
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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by rsynnott on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:39PM (#45307596)
Wait, is there a _specific_ prohibition? Like, they fail Old Testament dietary rules miserably _anyway_.
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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by NewJazz on Friday September 19, 2025 @08:42PM (#45308605)
These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle, the vulture, [a bunch of other birds] and the bat"

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2011:...

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Re:Ants Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch into ... by rsynnott on Saturday September 20, 2025 @05:57AM (#45311927)
Aaah, right, I suppose if you’re assuming it’s a bird it _would_ need a specific call-out, yeah. I was assuming it’d be covered by the hooves-and-stomachs stuff, but if you don’t think it’s a mammal in the first place that wouldn’t work.

(From the above: “Bible Gateway is currently unavailable to consumers in the United Kingdom and European Union due to technical issues.” I am now very curious just which EU regulation the bible website was worried about.)

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