Acts and "strangled animals" what does this mean??

[Soma-Sight]

Acts 15:20
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Acts 15:29
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

Acts 21:25
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality."



I read the Book of Acts last night in entirety and found this quite interesting....

Are we to not eat the meat of "In and Out Burger" or "McDonalds"?

 

[Lyric's Dad]

Upon further looking, the reality is that I just don't have a clue! :

 

[Georges]

Animals were to be killed and blooded as in the Rabbinic way....

Kosher....

 

[BJGrolle]

Gen 9:4 The one thing you must not eat is meat with blood still in it; I forbid this because the life is in the blood.


Here are some snippets from John Gill's commentary:

while there is life in the blood, or while the creature is living; the meaning is, that a creature designed for food should be properly killed, and its blood let out; that it should not be devoured alive, as by a beast of prey; that raw flesh should not be eaten, as since by cannibals, and might be by riotous flesh eaters, before the flood;...The design of this was to restrain cruelty in men, and particularly to prevent the shedding of human blood, which men might be led into, were they suffered to tear living creatures in pieces, and feed upon their raw flesh, and the blood in it.

 

[wavy]

What Georges said.

"Things strangled" are animals who have been killed by other means (strangling, obviously) than slitting their throat and draining the blood.

 

[Imagican]

Yes, that is a 'part' of it. But it most likely has to do with 'cruelty' also. There is 'little' pain when the throat is 'slit' properly. An animal simply 'bleeds out' and becomes unconscious. I think that we are all aware of the stress that 'strangulation' would bring about. And 'then' there's the retaining of blood in an animal that is not 'bled' first.

Also, from an aesthetic point, meat that is procured under 'stress' is likely to be 'tougher' and 'less savory' than that of an animal that dies instantly or without stress.