Originally Posted by
Dovster
That is not at all bizarre. If, for example, pork was unkosher 3000 years ago how could modern conservation methods possibly make it kosher today? At the best, and with the most theoretically perfect methods of food preservation, the pork would not change in the least -- for good or for bad -- while being stored.
So given you can now eat year old beef now that you couldn't 3000 years ago due to modern techniques, why given similar techniques can you not eat porc or shellfish that in ancient times would have been spoilt in hours and save everyone a whole lot of trouble and expense ?