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Dietary Law and Religious Food Practice

The culinary facet of religious dietary law: what a tradition permits, forbids or requires and how that shapes practice in the kitchen and at the table. Per this atlas's own DataBrief, the religious and legal content of dietary law belongs to Divinity; this atlas describes only the practice's culinary facet, connecting to Divinity's fuller treatment under ruling 713's ownership principle. Belongs here: Halal (Islamic Dietary Law), Kashrut (Jewish Dietary Law). Does not belong here: the religious doctrine or legal reasoning behind a dietary law, which is Divinity's subject, or a preservation technique that happens to be religiously significant, which stays under salt curing, smoking and drying unless a dedicated entity is minted.

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Practice ScopeSourced to the subject's own account
religious, cultural, or legal prohibition on specific foods 1
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1. Food and Drink Prohibitions (Wikipedia)
WikipediaFood and drink prohibitions, lead section, religious and cultural prohibitions
Quote, Food and drink prohibitions, lead section, religious and cultural prohibitions
Some people do not eat various specific foods and beverages in conformity with various religious, cultural, legal or other societal prohibitions.
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