It Seems that moses was fucked up indeed. While on his little constitutional on the mountain 'God' said to him:
"Holy shit Moses, you have proven your faith, so have all those that follow you. But Hows about we create the most elaborate, confusing, and pointless rules to govern them by. I want to see just how far my people will go. You can only eat animals with split hoofs, BUT they must also chew on their own vomit. Since that sounds completely disgusting make a word for it. You may also eat anything BOTH finned AND scaled but nothing else that comes from the water. Some birds and all four legged flying insects are FORBIDDEN. Along with homosexuality. Every 50 years you WILL hold a Jubilee which will forgive all debts and grant all land back to the original owner or their heirs."
"If you follow these ridiculous rules and any others I decide on making, you will earn a chance at entering heaven."
And that is what God said to Moses, or something to that effect.
personally I refuse to give up eating four legged flying insects, because that is what seperates us from the Bastard Fucking Queer Bate Vegetarians.