Religious reason: It’s not biblical under the Levitical food laws. In those laws, things like pig, dolphin, catfish, and vultures (to name a few examples) are not considered food to us (unclean foods due to what they eat).
If you look at the Levitical food laws, there are specific critera for what animal is considered food to eat. For seafood, it’s fish with fins and scales. If one doesn’t have the other, it’s unclean.
If you take their answer as “historical precedent that’s never been overturned” then it makes sense, And the question becomes “why did it get overturned for pigs and catfish?”
Religious reason: It’s not biblical under the Levitical food laws. In those laws, things like pig, dolphin, catfish, and vultures (to name a few examples) are not considered food to us (unclean foods due to what they eat).
I don’t believe it’s specifically forbidden, just that dolphins don’t have fins or scales. That includes a lot of things in the sea
If you look at the Levitical food laws, there are specific critera for what animal is considered food to eat. For seafood, it’s fish with fins and scales. If one doesn’t have the other, it’s unclean.
If everyone followed that “law,” nobody would eat pigs or catfish.
But most people do eat pig & catfish.
So your explanation doesn’t quite hold water.
If you take their answer as “historical precedent that’s never been overturned” then it makes sense, And the question becomes “why did it get overturned for pigs and catfish?”
People turned away from the faith because they wanted to eat unclean meats.
There’s a test I’d like to run.
Over a large and varied population, are unclean meats tastier or not?