So the argument that Hoy presents in this book I don't really disagree with, but there is a lot to talk about that the book doesn't. Most of us have heard of a Kosher diet. It's most popular dietary restriction is no pork, which makes sense when you look at the basis for why it was banned from eating. It has a lot of unhealthy attributes that are garnered from what a pig eats. That basically is the basis of why animals are kosher or not. It depends on what they consume, which negates the health of eating that animal. Now here is where my problem is. How meat is prepared and even raised is a whole lot different than in Biblical times. We have mass factories that feed animals that are cows, chickens, pigs, and more hormones in order to speed up their growth, which has proven to be unhealthy for the consumer. Also if you have watched Food Inc., then you also know that cows are fed corn instead of grass, and corn actually has caused much beef to now be contaminated with E.Coli, since a cow's stomach can't digest anything but grass properly, that has left consumers dead. So if the basis of the Biblical commandment to be kosher is because of the unhealthy things those animals have consumed and the health risk of eating their meat because of that then aren't a whole lot more meats unsafe and perhaps considered banned by a kosher diet?
