Are there any forbidden foods in Catholicism

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Examples would be: canines, felines, primates, endangered species, blood foods. I’m not interested in a personal opinion or what is or isn’t taboo. Is there any rule or doctrine? St. Peter’s dream seems to say there are no rules. I know the animals have to be killed humanely but does species matter?
 
Nope. Some people bring up the consumption of blood as forbidden due to Acts, but that was a restriction for the early Church while it was still growing around Palestine. It doesn’t seem to be enforced any longer.

The thing with food is to watch how much you are consuming to avoid the sin of gluttony.
 
I think meat sacrificed to idols is still banned as it would be considered a participation in the worship of the idol. Not that it makes much difference. I could be wrong though.
 
I would suspect the church isn’t a fan of cannibalism.
 
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I think meat sacrificed to idols is still banned as it would be considered a participation in the worship of the idol. Not that it makes much difference. I could be wrong though.
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Not even. That had been lifted by St Pauls time. His only concern was prudence to avoid scandal for those of weaker faith.
 
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His only concern was prudence to avoid scandal for those of weaker faith.
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Ahh, yes . . . “He who is weak in faith eats only vegetables, but he who is strong in faith can eat an-y-thiing” (or something similar is the translation we use at liturgy). Yes, vegetarians are weak in faith! :crazy_face:🤣😱

(for the humor impaired, this was sarcasm, although that is the translation we use).

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I didn’t think his dream in Acts was about the eating of all animals, though I can see it being taken that way.
His dream was right before the envoy arrived to take Peter to baptize Cornelius and his family. Hence the dream was showing him basically how I interpret it that God is saying to baptize gentiles on all four corners of the earth.
The teaching of food comes from when Christ says it is not what goes in a person that defiled but what comes from the heart and through the lips.
 
I have friend who spent sometime all over Asia. He ate dog and raw horse and honestly I want to try it. My mind doesn’t really comprehend illogical stigmas.
 
Well, human have such an intimate evolutionary relationship with dogs that the stigma against eating them is understandable. They are close to us in a way that no other species wild or domesticated is.
 
Yah. Same with cats I assume.
Though weren’t they also considered gods in ancient Egypt?
 
I get it but I grew up around cows. My pawpaw had a small farm. One time he bought a bull as a baby and raised it. He spent time with it everyday. When it was time to kill it he couldn’t lol. Cows form bonds better than dogs and arguably more intelligent and useful. I’m from the south also and lots of people have pet squirrels and rabbits but we also eat them. Same with pigs and sheep.
 
I would think the Catholic Church would say it’s against the dignity of humans to eat human flesh under any circumstances.

Dire circumstances do not make wrongs right.
 
None that I am aware of.

See Acts 10:15, it is interpreted that there are no “impure” food. Also check out Mathew 15:10 “A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Clearly God is more interested in what dwells in our hearts rather than the “purity” of our food.

Having said that cannibalism is morally wrong (goes against human dignity), as well as eating endangered species because we are causing them to become extinct.

Naturally we are only allowed to kill animals to survive and obtain our food from them, never must we subject them to harm to amuse us (bull fighting for example is morally wrong).
 
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I still don’t understand the backlash against eating dogs. We eat cows, pigs, chickens, and iguanas. Why are dogs off the menu? It’s not like people can’t have close relationships to farm animals.
 
I know people who have consumed horse meat, they all say it is delicious.

My dad once ate dog while on a mission trip, he did go back for seconds (but, it was the first meat he had been offered in many weeks).
 
l love rare steak so dipping raw horse in soy sounds wonderful.
 
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