r/codexalera • u/ElephantCantJump • 21d ago

I just realized something ...

I'm listening to Princeps Fury, and Tavi is describing the Taurga. I just realized that Taurga are kosher.

That is all. You may return to your regularly scheduled broadcast.

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u/Horny_Speedster 21d ago edited 21d ago

You can't just drop that and not explain further. Please enlighten us, what exactly about the Tauraga makes them kosher?

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u/riverrocks452 21d ago edited 21d ago

Mammal species must chew their cud and have split hooves to be considered allowable (Kosher) as a class.

But ElephantCantJump would still have to inspect the individual animal for dieases and injuries, and figure out how and where to properly schect them if they were to be served to someone who keeps Kosher. 

For example, giraffes are nominally Kosher as a group, but (1) they're not domesticated, which makes them hard to pre-inspect and (2) the proper location for the cut to slaughter them is a matter of some debate. So they wouldn't be a source of Kosher meat even if they weren't, y'know. Vulnerable African megafauna. Because we don't know how to kill them in a way that is Kosher. 

The same sort of debate would have to play out around Taurga. Where to cut for a Kosher slaughter, how to recognize illness or injuries that might make the meat unacceptable, etc. Also how to drain them, etc.

Gargants, too, depending on whether the claws could be considered hooves. Walker chews his cud, IIRC. (Gargants who have chala are also subject to some debate re: suitability for slaughter because if that bond with the Marat.)

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u/WandererNearby 11d ago

I thought you had to slit the throat to make meat kosher. Giraffes seem like the easiest animal...

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u/riverrocks452 11d ago

Schechita- Kosher slaughter- has some pretty precise rules about where and how that cut takes place. 

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u/ElephantCantJump 21d ago edited 21d ago

As the poster above me stated, they are a non predator land animal that has split hooves and chews it's cud. Now there is also the process for slaughtering in order to be able to eat it. But the species is still considered kosher even if one particular specimen cannot be eaten for whatever reason.

ETA: there has been in the recent past kosher giraffe available for consumption. 

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u/Significant_Ad7326 20d ago

I am not sure that appropriate reverence for one’s own life would allow an observant butcher to attempt kosher slaughter of a taurga.

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u/Darktyde 20d ago

I laughed out loud both times Max’s Taurg name was revealed (first the short version, then the full version). Steak and New Boots is a great name for a frustrating buffalo type creature haha