1 way in which it can achieve this goal is thru refining the practice of making distinctions. Kashrut can help us shape a way of life that is marked by distinctions: between the permitted and the forbidden, the sacred & the profane, the good & the bad. Distinguishing between permitted & prohibited foods can B part of a total way of life that constantly helps us refine our sense of control OVER our passions & desires. Adam & Eve ate no meat. After the Flood, the permission granted Noah 2 eat meat seems 2 B a concession 2 human weakness. Animals R also creatures of God. If we take their lives 4 the sake of our own sustenance, we R obliged 2 do so in a restricted way, 1 in which the animal experiences a minimum of pain. This is 1 of the ways in which Holy Bible teaches reverence for ALL life. Eating blood is forbidden. Blood is blood, whether it comes from a human being or an animal. In prohibiting the consumption of blood, the Holy Bible seems 2 B concerned that it can excite a blood-lust in human beings & may desensitize us 2 the suffering of human beings when their blood is spilled. In the passage in which the prohibition against eating “flesh with its life-blood in it” is 1st found we also see the prohibition against murder: “Whoever sheds the blood of man - By man shall his blood be shed” (Holy Bible's Genesis 9:6). Cuz life, even an animal life, is sacred & “the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Holy Bible's Leviticus 17:11), the blood of animals must not be eaten; it must B disposed of carefully.