Gee Greg, maybe there was more Demoic-whatever Poisoning in those days, you know, red tides and stuff, so it might have been good advice not to eat oysters. You should open your mind to the possibility that pollution from spent rocket fuel could have contaminated the waters of the Mediterranean Sea and caused a danger of paralytic shellfish poisoning.

There are many explanations as to why they might not have wanted to eat oysters. In my state, all the oysters are private property, so the only place you can get them is the store. So maybe them bible-writing folks were just trying to protect the shellfish industry.

Who's to know, really? All that stuff got translated into English from some other durn language, and who knows how reliable the interpreters were? So some those of chapters and verses could well have been infomercials.

I for one, am glad we can eat oysters now, and I trust I won't get struck by lightening.