[DouglasKC]

How do you observe this law? And if any animal which you may eat dies, he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening.” (Lev. 11:39)
The fact is that the law of clean and unclean animals was given in this context:

If I raised food animals and I found one of them dead, I wouldn't touch it without having gloves on. You never know what might have killed it or what diseases it might have had.

[topcat54]

If I raised food animals and I found one of them dead, I wouldn't touch it without having gloves on. You never know what might have killed it or what diseases it might have had.

Argument from pragmatics, not from the Bible. I wouldn't dig a latrine upstream from my camp either, but not because it’s written in the Bible (which it isn't). It just makes sense.