If an animal that you are allowed to eat dies, anyone who touches its carcass will be unclean till evening. The clean animal that dies of natural causes rather than proper slaughter creates the same until-evening impurity as the unclean animal's carcass. Even clean animals become impurity-creating when they die without proper slaughter. The death of a clean animal outside the prescribed slaughter context transforms it from clean to impurity-producing: what was permitted food becomes a source of ritual impurity when it dies in an unauthorized manner.

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