They prefer little people.

Shellfish/mollusks/crustaceans can be sketchy, if you don't know how fresh they are. It was kind of a 'don't die of food poisoning' thing. There are quite a few things in the Bible that were just to protect people from stuff that modern medicine and research hadn't been around to educate about.

It's like an FDA warning. Bottom feeders were more likely to pick up disease. Outdated advice! Watch for The Bible 2.0. Lol

The logic behind not eating shrimp or pork is because they're "dirty" for being bottom feeding creatures.

In Judaism, there are three major categories of laws based on rationality - Edot, which are things that commemorate other things (for instance, 'remember to celebrate X holiday'), mishpatim, which are sensible laws (eg, 'don't murder') and chukim, which are unexplainable laws (eg, prohibitions on eating shrimp). In fact, the rules of kashrut (what's kosher to eat and what's not) are often cited as examples of chukim. So don't worry, you're not alone.

One time someone ate shrimp and died.

Shellfish are difficult to store safely when you are a nomadic people traveling through the desert...

Maybe someone was allergic and thought that shrimps are poisonous.

Scavengers. The bible prohibits eating pretty much any scavengers. I've seen theories about disease-carrying or ecological impacts... plausible, but not convincing. EDIT: To be clear, this command to the Israelites was explicitly overturned by Christ. Nothing a man consumes makes him (or her) impure, only what comes out of the heart.

When shrimps are offered I put on my Christian mode each time. Shrimps simply scare me and I am ready to be a good believer any time it includes not considering creepy looking seafood edible.

because it is AN ABOMINATION or something

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My guess would be that they're bottom feeders that essentially eat the c**p that falls to the seafloor, which is pretty gross considering you are what you eat and so are shrimp... But what do I know? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Any kind of fish can become loaded bad bacteria and some pretty bad germs, if it isn't processed and stored right, at the right temperature. Maybe, the eggs or shrimp were beginning to spoil.

The shells are edible, but they taste terrible, and are likely to carry the most bacteria. So basically, just don't bother.

Pork doesn't "cause" trichinosis. Certain roundworms cause trichinosis. These roundworms are found in the meat of bears, pork, boars and dog.

The absolute worst thing you can get from pork is "la tenía". That's Spanish for the pork tapeworm. I don't remember if that's the scientific name for them. They are very bad, not because of the worm as much as because of the eggs. That's because, if fertile eggs pass from the host and get picked up and ingested by another person, perhaps a child, they can enter the bloodstream and go to all parts of the body. Once they arrive at their new homes, cysts form around them encapsulating them. There was a diagnostic image on the internet of a person who had, perhaps, a hundred such cysts in the brain and another of a person's leg that was in the same condition. Imagine the mental problems caused by that many cysts in a person's brain! And, yet, it's hard to get most doctors in the US to admit that people have worms these days. You should be careful handling raw pork, because you don't know if it might have come in contact with the poop of the hog somehow at the processing facility. Don't put your hand to your mouth, until you're through handling the meat and you've washed you hands.

I suspect it was because they had no refrigeration. Shellfish and pork spoil quickly.