CLEAN AND UNCLEAN MEATS

In Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 are guidelines telling us what foods we should avoid. The swine,
or hog, is referred to in Leviticus 11.
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is
unclean to you.

Our Creator, when He gave us bodies, gave us bodies that balanced out the body chemistry. He created
energy out of anions and cations. In reading this, some will say "Yes, but these instructions were just
for the people of Israel in Old Testament times. We now have the liberty to eat pork." But, in reality,
your gastric juices, your body chemistry, is no different than those of the Israelites of some 4,000 years
ago! While we are living in the dispensation of Grace (this had to do with our spiritual life), our human
digestive tract has not changed! Although today’s hogs are raised on grains and in hog parlors under
antiseptic conditions, the hog still presents digestive problems.

Dr. Carey Reams, a biochemist, did seven years of research before he found the answer . . . yet it was
not the research that helped him find the answer to why we were better off obeying the instructions of
Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Dr. Reams first discovered that the calories in beef, pork, fish or
anything else per gram of lean meat are almost the same. There is very little difference here.

Dr Reams came upon this fact quite unexpectedly. He had a client who was told that he had less than a
year to live. As an agricultural engineer, Dr. Reams serviced his orange grove and cattle farms. This
client told Dr. Reams: "You’ve got to help me. Medicine has failed." Dr. Reams gave him a gram scale
and told him: "I don’t care what you eat. I want you to mark down exactly what you eat on the gram
scale and come in for a saliva and urine test every day at 2 o’clock."

Through his tests, Dr. Reams came up with the unusual information that every day this client ate the
unclean meats, down went the energy level! And every day that he did not eat unclean meats, the
energy level began to climb. Dr. Reams began eliminating certain foods from his diet, one by one, and
to Dr. Reams’ knowledge this man is still living today!

What Dr. Reams discovered is that unclean meats, such as hogs, shrimp, lobsters, clams, oysters and
catfish (along with many others), produce very high energy levels. But the problem is that they expend
these high energy levels very quickly! Dr. Reams emphasizes: "You must have a time limit on it. In
other words, the unclean meats digest in a period of 3 hours. The clean meats require about 18 hours.
What this means is that the energy in pork and other unclean meats in released in 3 hours instead of 18."

Why would it be bad for these meats to digest so quickly . . . in 3 hours? It is bad because, according to
Dr. Reams’ thinking, it’s like putting high test gasoline, such as aviation fuel, in a motor that’s not built
for it! With the way we live today, such quick energy tends to burn out our system . . . causing many
physical problems. We may eat these high-energy meats for years and appear seemingly healthy, but
this continued abuse of our body eventually surfaces into a serious terminal disease!

Dr. Reams found that even people who do hard work such as construction workers and farmers, in many
cases, come in to see him with serious problems, even though they expend a great deal of energy in their
work. He states that even some people 30 and 35 years of age look like they are 70 or 75 because of
indiscreet eating habits. He adds, “We take these people off the unclean meats, teach them what to eat
and in 6 months they look younger than their years!”
The following meats meet the qualifications as clean according to Lev. 11 and Deut. 14:

Biblically Clean Fish

(Must have both fins and scales)
Albacore (Crevalle, Horse Mackerel, Jack) Mullet
Alewives (Branch Herring, River Herring) Muskellunge (Jack)
Anchovy Orange Roughy
Barracuda Perch
Bass Pickerel (Jack)
Black Drum Pig Fish
Blackfish Pike (Jack)
Black Pomfret (Monchong) Pilchard (Sardine)
Blueback (Glut Herring) Pollack
Bluebill Sunfish Pompano
Bluefish Porgy (Scup)
Blue Runner (Hardtail) Red Drum (Redfish)
Bonitos Redfin (Red Horse Sucker)
Boston Bluefish (Pollack) Red Snapper
Bowfin Red Striped Sucker (Long Nose Sucker)
Buffalofish Robalo (Gulf Pike)
Butterfish Rockfish
Carp Salmon (Chum, Coho, King, Pink, Red)
Chub (Bloater, Longjaw, Blackfin) Sardine (Pilchard)
Cod Scup (Porgy)
Crappie Sea Bass
Crevalle (Albacore) Sergeant Fish (Gulf Pike)
Croaker Shad
Darter Sheepshead
Flounder (Dab, Gray Sole, Yellow Tail) Silver Hake (Whiting)
Frost Fish (Ice Fish, Smelt) Silversides
Gaby Smelt (Frost Fish)
Grayling Snapper
Groupers (Gag) Snook (Gulf Pike)
Grunts Sole
Gulf Pike (Robalo, Snook, Sergeant) Spanish Mackerel
Haddock Striped Bass
Hake Sucker
Halibut Sunfish
Hardhead Tarpon
Hardtail (Blue Runner) Trout
Herring [Tuna] (Albacore, Bluefin, Bonito,
Horse Mackerel (Albacore) Yellowfin, Shipjack/Skipjack)
Kingfish Walleye
Long Nose Sucker (Northern Sucker, Red Weakfish
Striped Sucker) Whitefish
[Mackerel] White Sucker
Menhaden Whiting (Silver Hake)
Minnow Yellow Perch
 Biblically Unclean Fish and Seafood
Abalone Lobster Sculpin
Bullhead Marlin Shark
Catfish Mussel Shrimp
Clam Octopus Squid (Calamari)
Crab Oyster Stickleback
Crayfish Paddlefish (Spoonbill) Sturgeon (Caviar)
Cuttlefish Porpoise Swordfish
Eel Prawn Turbot, European
Jellyfish Scallop Whale
Limpet

Clean Land Animals (Red Meat)

(Must chew the cud and have a divided hoof)

Antelope Deer Ibex

Beef Elk Llama
Bison Gazelle Moose
Buffalo Giraffe Ox
Caribou Goat Reindeer
Cattle Hart Sheep

Biblically Unclean Land Animals

Badger Hare Peccary
Bat Hippopotamus Pig
Bear Hog Porcupine
Beaver Horse Quagga
Boar Hyena Rabbit
Camel Jackal Raccoon
Cat Kangaroo Rhinoceros
Cheetah Leopard Skunk
Coney Lion Squirrel
Coyote Monkey Swine
Dog Mule Tiger
Donkey Muskrat Wallaby
Elephant Onager Weasel
Fox Opossum Wolverine
Gorilla Panther Zebra
Groundhog
 Clean Fowl
(Cannot be a raptor or scavenger)

Chicken Peacock (peafowl) Sagehen

Dove Pheasant Sparrow (and other
Duck Pigeon songbirds)
Goose Prairie Chicken Swan
Grouse Ptarmigan Teal
Guinea Fowl Quail Turkey
Partridge

Biblically Unclean Fowl

Albatross Grosbeak Rail
Bittern Gull Raven
Buzzard Hawk Roadrunner
Condor Heron Sandpiper
Coot Kite Seagull
Cormorant Lapwing Stork
Crane Loon Swallow
Crow Osprey Swan*
Cuckoo Ostrich Swift
Duck* Owl Vulture
Eagle Parrot Water hen*
Flamingo Pelican Woodpecker
Goose* Penguin
Grebe Plover

*In both Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 the swan is mentioned, but a check of the Hebrew
word from whence it is translated shows that it has to do with the water hen. The swan, duck, and
goose are all water hens, therefore some suggest that their flesh not be eaten.

Biblically Clean Creepers

Different types of locusts, which include grasshoppers

Biblically Unclean Creepers

Alligator Lizard Snail (escargot)
Blindworm Mole Slug
Caiman Mouse Toad
Crocodile Newt Turtle
Frog Rat Worm
Insects (all, except the locust Salamander
family)