What is strange is that those verses also say to refrain from eating the fat of animals and I don’t see any Jehovah’s Witnesses doing that!
That sort of surprised me as well. From the few articles I read, they can eat meat that has the blood properly drained from it. Thus, they wouldn’t eat something like blood pudding or blood sausage. For years, I thought they refrained from transfusions because they interpreted it as a mild form of cannibalism. They weren’t eating flesh but their body would “consume” another person’s blood. Now.... I wonder how they interpret the Last Supper. That is, when Jesus says “take this.. this is my body. Drink this.. this is my blood”.