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Examples of food taboos.

 Muslims do not eat pork

 Catholics do not eat meat during lent on Fridays

 Muslims do not eat meat of an animal slaughtered by

non-muslim

 Certain clans in Uganda’s tribes are not al-

lowed to certain plants and animals’ flesh

because they are totems

 Hindi Indians do not eat cows

 Some Nigerians cultures believe that

children who eat eggs will become

THIEVES!

 In many tribes of Asia, Eating meat is

bad.

A food belief is a feeling that is established by certain tribes to be
true or real about food.

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Examples

In some African cultures;

 Women and girls are not supposed to eat chicken or fish.

 Men are not supposed to eat oil nuts.

 Children and babies are not supposed to eat eggs.

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Advantages of food taboos and beliefs

involves welcoming a  In some cases, people are saved from the bad effects of eating
certain foods. E.g. eating too much pork and alcohol has serious

health consequences.

 Certain animals flourish because people do not eat them.

 People who have food taboos which result to healthy food hab-

its live longer.