r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Jul 31 '24

AAJ "Ask A Jew" Wednesday

It's everyone's favorite day of the week, "Ask A (Anti-Zionist) Jew" Wednesday! Ask whatever you want to know, within the sub rules, notably that this is not a debate sub and do not import drama from other subreddits. That aside, have fun! We love to dialogue with our non-Jewish siblings.

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u/Slow-Dragonfruit-932 Non-denominational Jul 31 '24

I take a daily glucosamine, its made from shell fish but very transformed. Would someone who keeps kosher be unable to eat this?

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 31 '24

I'm not in the habit of eating my dietary supplements and vitamins, I take them instead. The pills are inedible and clearly not food, and even if you want to argue that they're edible, then if one swallows them whole that is a means of ingestion that is unlike eating -- I can't call to mind a kosher solid food that is swallowed whole and without chewing.

If one is really concerned, one can make it clear that the taking of the pill is not eating by wrapping the pill in tissue paper.