How To Kill a Starfish?

Thanks for the replies and info. I already knew, from my comparative religions studies almost 50 years ago, about the pig (and other) thing as far as many religions are concerned.

The religious ban was one means to prevent food poisoning in ancient times because water was scarce on the desert and sanitation minimal. They actually 'washed' their dishes and utensils (such as they were) with sand. I just never connected the ancient practices with military uses today. Interesting, to say the least.

Hey, if it'd work, I'm all for it. Stupid sounding but when you're dealing with unthinking, programmed to die, people well...whatever works is what we should be doing. What's a little fat among folks, eh? Might even work to just dump buckets of pig guts, blood, etc. on them instead of bullets. Might even be a marketing idea for terrorist repellants, eh?

Perfect example of cannon fodder...beats the 'glory of Rome' all to 'ell, yes? You don't see the instigators of these idiot-ologies volunteering to die, do you? Nope...then there'd be no advantage to them in getting others to do their dirty work on any pretext.

Sandi Bowman