Deuteronomy 14:11

Deuteronomy 14:11 says, Of all clean birds ye shall eat.  Next, Moses listed all the birds the people of Israel could eat, calling them clean birds.  This was not just Moses decision, but God's.  If anyone starts to tell us as Christians what we cannot eat today, it is their decision and not God's, and we should not base what we can and cannot eat on what they say.  Verse twelve states, But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,  Moses then began to list the birds that they could not eat.  Verse thirteen adds, And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,  Verse fourteen continues, And every raven after his kind, These were birds of prey and birds that ate dead flesh.  Verse fifteen says, And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,  Verse sixteen adds, The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,  Verse seventeen continues, And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,  Verse eighteen states, And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.  These are still birds that we probably wouldn't eat today, because it wouldn't be healthy, but even they are not forbidden for moral reasons.  Verse nineteen states, And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten. Verse twenty adds, But of all clean fowls ye may eat.  Moses concluded his list of what was prohibited, then said that all clean birds could be eaten, and those were any not listed as forbidden.  Matthew Henry points out that these rules applied only to the Israelites, and not to the rest of the world.  We as followers of Christ really have no rules or restrictions, dietary or otherwise, that do not apply to the rest of the world.  The only difference is that we believe and obey them and they don't.  God's law is universal, even if it is not accepted.  Verse twenty-one declares, Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  Moses then told them that they could not eat anything that died naturally,  but they could give it to a stranger to eat, or even sell it to them.  These animals likely would not have had the blood drained from them.  The people of Israel were to do this because they were a holy people, not because of who they were physically, but because of their relationship with God.  So are we today as followers of Christ.  Moses also added that they were not cook a kid, or young goat, in its mothers milk.