All Dietary Law (Animals and Totems)

Religious rules that divide animals into those that may be eaten and those that may not, such as the clean and unclean animals of Levitical law, the halal and haram animals of Islam and the Jain rules of non-violence in diet. An entry belongs here when its article presents a system of food laws that sorts animals. The group page lists animals of one kind together so that a reader can compare their symbolic and spiritual roles across traditions.