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According to the Letter of Aristeas, locusts are birds:
For all the birds that we use are tame and distinguished by their cleanliness, feeding on various kinds of grain and pulse, such as for instance pigeons, turtle-doves, locusts, partridges, geese also, and all other birds of this class.
Also what do people have against weasels?
The weasel class, too, is peculiar: for besides what has been said, it has a characteristic which is defiling: It conceives through the ears and brings forth through the mouth.
Eleazar the High Priest sent to the king of Alexandria valuable parchments, on which the law was inscribed in gold in Jewish characters
Hm:
And as is the custom of all the Jews, they washed their hands in the sea and prayed to God and then devoted themselves to reading and translating the particular passage upon which they were engaged, and I put the question to them, Why it was that they washed their hands before they prayed? And they explained that it was a token that they had done no evil (for every form of activity is wrought by means of the hands) since in their noble and holy way they regard everything as a symbol of righteousness and truth.
(R. H. Charles' 1913 translation)
For all the birds that we use are tame and distinguished by their cleanliness, feeding on various kinds of grain and pulse, such as for instance pigeons, turtle-doves, locusts, partridges, geese also, and all other birds of this class.
Also what do people have against weasels?
The weasel class, too, is peculiar: for besides what has been said, it has a characteristic which is defiling: It conceives through the ears and brings forth through the mouth.
Eleazar the High Priest sent to the king of Alexandria valuable parchments, on which the law was inscribed in gold in Jewish characters
Hm:
And as is the custom of all the Jews, they washed their hands in the sea and prayed to God and then devoted themselves to reading and translating the particular passage upon which they were engaged, and I put the question to them, Why it was that they washed their hands before they prayed? And they explained that it was a token that they had done no evil (for every form of activity is wrought by means of the hands) since in their noble and holy way they regard everything as a symbol of righteousness and truth.
(R. H. Charles' 1913 translation)
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We had weasles several times during the C. 30 years I worked at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. I suspect they're disliked mostly because they generally rip out the throat of their prey (usually peafowl, in these cases) drink the blood, and wastefully leave the perfectly good (well, still-nutritious although usually pretty stringy) meat to rot. (Not the our gardeners were all that fond of peafowl -- messy, unpleasantly noisy birds with an insatiable appetite for flower-buds -- but....)
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Don't suppose weasels are worse than cats, cats just kill things for kicks.