Why is it common practice not to eat Giraffe Meat?
asked Jul 4, 2010 at 18:47
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1See zootorah.com/VirtualTour/giraffe.html– yitznewtonCommented Nov 29, 2011 at 19:11
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How do you know that this is the practice? Do Jews refrain from this in areas where giraffe meat is plentiful?– mevaqeshCommented May 28, 2017 at 3:03
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Here's a Mezuzah written on giraffe hide www1.biu.ac.il/File/…– Double AA ♦Commented Nov 3, 2017 at 15:06
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Because giraffes are an endangered species, and we'd get in trouble if we started killing them.
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1Michael Kopinsky, Welcome to mi.yodeya, and thanks for the out-of-the-box answer! Please consider clicking register, above, to create your account. This will give you access to all of mi.yodeya's features and will allow you to take full credit for your contributions.– Isaac Moses ♦Commented Jul 22, 2010 at 16:34
As By: Rabbi Ari Z. Zivotofsky Ph.D. explains in detail, there is no reason why not to eat Giraffe meat from a Halachic point of view.
answered Jul 22, 2010 at 10:49
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1So as to "why it's not common practice", economics from one perspective or another; plus potentially those who are still halachically nervous -- again, that's economics.– ShalomCommented Jul 23, 2010 at 11:50
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I have been told that it tastes gamy and does not have that much meat on it. Commented May 27, 2016 at 16:28
Another possibility is that it's quite dangerous -- a giraffe can kill a lion with its kick!
There is another reason: giraffes are very expensive, and very likely to be found a teraifah, so it is not worth it, and also tza'ar baalei chaim to kill it if it will probably not be kosher.
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1Just because it will probably be a t'reifah does not make it tzar baalei haim to kill it if you want to eat it.– YahuCommented Jul 5, 2010 at 3:09
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Even if it's רובא דמינכר that it will be treifah? I'm not so sure about that.– AlexCommented Jul 5, 2010 at 14:03
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1The Noda Bihuda said that game hunting did not violate the specific prohibition of tzaar baalei chayim per se, as the intent was to kill the animal as directly as possible. Tzaar baalei chayim is about tormenting animals. But I agree that the economics don't add up.– ShalomCommented Jul 6, 2010 at 14:25
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They can shecht it and sell it to non-Jews if it's a treifa. In some places, your shochtim work in a treifa slaughterhouse, and they only pay for the animals if they're kosher– user613Commented Sep 20, 2018 at 23:07
There are two answers that people say they are both off. The place for Shechting is known it and it is huge. The other answer is there is no market for it put that could be solved with some good marketing (Just look at Sushi).The real answer is to eat something we need a Mesorah that it is Kosher.The Remah says it about birds in Yoreh Deah 82:3. The Chazon Ish(Yoreh Deah 11:4-5) and the Chochmas Adam(36:1) extends this to all animals. Therefore the real reason we don't eat is because we have no Mesorah for it.
answered Jul 4, 2010 at 18:59
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1It's debated whether the Chochmas Adam means you need a tradition that a mammal is kosher, or simply a tradition whether it's treated as "wild" or "domestic."– ShalomCommented Jul 4, 2010 at 20:44
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For an informative article about this topic: kashrut.com/articles/giraffe– DaveCommented Jul 16, 2010 at 16:10
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@SimchasTorah If a mesorah is always necessary then we would not be allowed to eat turkey. At some point someone must have decided that this previously unknown bird was kosher without having a mesorah for it.– MikeCommented Feb 14, 2014 at 2:33
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1@Mike, the need for mesorah on birds is different than the need for mesorah on animals (without taking sides on whether it is required in either case). They have a different underlying reason to require it, so you can't compare.– YishaiCommented Feb 14, 2014 at 15:03