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Ephraim Ben Noach:
Why can you eat fish and milk but not beef and milk? The Torah says not to cook a kid in it's mothers milk, so how does that have anything to do with mixing meat and milk?

Tag-MehirTzedek:
Fish is a different category than meat. (and by the way not all do this but their are many Sefardim especially who don't eat them together but only for health reasons).
 Meat and milk some of the reasons is because not to mix Chessed (milk) and Cruelty together. When a cow (or any female species) is milked they are relieved of pain. When an animal is killed they suffer (no matter how much it is tried to cause as little pain as possible).

Ephraim Ben Noach:
So... A Jew can not drink a glass of milk and eat beef together, right? What about chicken and sauce, that may have milk in it?

Tag-MehirTzedek:
No chicken either because chicken falls into the category of meat.

edu:
The Torah says 3 times Do not cook a גדי in the milk of its mother.
The sages understood that גדי are all types of kosher animals that drink from their mother's milk.
Birds which do not drink from their mother's milk aren't forbidden by Torah law, to be eaten with milk but are forbidden by rabbinic law with the thought that if we permit bird meat and milk some people might come to eat beef with milk.
While the Torah verse stresses just the prohibition of cooking milk with  גדי according to one view the Rabbis deduced from the special laws on how to interpret the Torah that the prohibition extends to eating. Another view brought by Rashi, views Dvarim/Deut.14:3 as the source of the eating prohibition.
Gentiles who observe the Noachide Laws are not obligated to keep this commandment.

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