Do we still have issues on eating blood

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I think there is a problem with eating blood, along with some other restrictions, in the Maronite Church and other Syriacs. It is not really upheld anymore as far as I know though.
 
If it is forbidden, then the entire population of the Scottish Highlands is going to Hell:eek:. But seriously, we have black pudding (the dominant culture on the island of Cape Breton being Highland Scots). I had it first as a child…before I knew it was made from oatmeal and blood. It has a unique flavor, which a Chinese friend tells me tastes like their duck blood soup. My wife loves it. I prefer the white pudding, but the black pudding is good too. As Catholics, I don’t believe we are forbidden to eat anything, except meat on Friday. Otherwise, what we don’t eat is just a cultural norm (we don’t eat cats, dogs, insects, etc., but other peoples do).
 
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If it is forbidden, then the entire population of the Scottish Highlands is going to Hell:eek:. But seriously, we have black pudding (the dominant culture on the island of Cape Breton being Highland Scots). I had it first as a child…before I knew it was made from oatmeal and blood. It has a unique flavor, which a Chinese friend tells me tastes like their duck blood soup. My wife loves it. I prefer the white pudding, but the black pudding is good too. As Catholics, I don’t believe we are forbidden to eat anything, except meat on Friday. Otherwise, what we don’t eat is just a cultural norm (we don’t eat cats, dogs, insects, etc., but other peoples do).
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You are viewing the whole Church through the eyes of the Latin Church. It is latin discipline to forbid the eating of meat on Friday’s. In the east it is traditional though that both Friday and Wednesday are days of abstinence along with the four principle fasts of the Church. The Syriacs as has been mentioned traditionally forbid the eating of blood in addition to these fasts.
 
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You are viewing the whole Church through the eyes of the Latin Church. It is latin discipline to forbid the eating of meat on Friday’s. In the east it is traditional though that both Friday and Wednesday are days of abstinence along with the four principle fasts of the Church. The Syriacs as has been mentioned traditionally forbid the eating of blood in addition to these fasts.
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CANON 63 of the Holy Apostles

If any Bishop, or Presbyter, or Deacon, or anyone else in the sacerdotal list at all, eat meat in the blood of its soul, or that has been killed by a wild beast, or that has died a natural death, let him be deposed. For the Law has forbidden this. But if any layman do the same, let him be excommunicated.
 
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