Can we eat seaweeds, ferns, and mushrooms biblically? Leviticus 11

Can we eat seaweeds, ferns, and mushrooms biblically? Leviticus 11

Summary: If they are clean & safe, Yes. Manna, yeast, and salt, are some things that don't fit it Lev 11's descriptions of clean animals, clean seafood, or fruit and seed bearing plans.

Confusions:
  • Seaweeds
    • they are from the sea and rivers, but don't have fish and scales.
  • Mushrooms
    • they are not even plants
  • Ferns
    • they are plants but they are not seed-bearing or fruit-bearing, but multiply by spores

Solutions:
  • Manna
    • these are not plants w/c are fruit/seed bearing
    • they are also not from the sea w/ fins and scales
    • they also don't have characteristics of clean animals
  • Yeast / Leaven
    • these are not plants w/c are fruit/seed bearing
    • they are also not from the sea w/ fins and scales
    • they also don't have characteristics of clean animals
    • "A moderate amount of milk and sugar, and a little salt, white bread raised with yeast for a change, graham flour prepared in a variety of ways by other hands than her own, plain cake with raisins, rice pudding with raisins, prunes, and figs, occasionally, and many other dishes I might mention, would have answered the demand of appetite. If he could not obtain some of these things, a little domestic wine would have done her no injury; it would have been better for her to have it than to do without it. In some cases, even a small amount of the least hurtful meat would do less injury than to suffer strong cravings for it."  {2T 383.4} 
  • Salt
    • these are not plants w/c are fruit/seed bearing
    • they are also not from the sea w/ fins and scales
    • they also don't have characteristics of clean animals
  • Mushrooms
  • Ferns
    • "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so." Gen 1:30

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