kosher & halal

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marc Sacks wrote:

#I discovered another one when I passed by a halal restaurant that serves
#cheeseburgers. Under the laws of kashrut, combining milk with meat
#products is forbidden. Evidently this particular restriction does not
#exist in Islam. Ditto for Seventh-Day Adventists, who abstain from pork
#and shellfish but have no problem with cheeseburgers.

That's not surprising, considering that this most famous aspect of
kashrut all stems from rabbinic elaboration of a single verse, "Do not
stew a kid/calf in its mother's milk."

-- Mark A. Mandel