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Even the two great religious lawgivers who laid down social rules for their followers which allowed a flesh diet, did not allow it absolutely. Muhammed and Moses prohibited pork from being included, while Moses went further and ordered a preliminary process that robs the meat of much of its harm. It is not so much the meat that is harmful and debasing, as its life-force carrier, the blood. Before a Jew eats meat, the blood is almost entirely withdrawn from it, being drained out by a soaking for some hours in salt water.

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 174