Islamic dietary law follows a rigorous logic based on the belief that food exercises more than a physical influence over human beings. The consumption of meat is therefore regulated according to certain rules, such as the diet of animals, their relationship with humans and their mythological dimension. By eating forbidden meat, one takes the risk of metamorphosing into the image of that animal, and contradicting the idea of humanity itself. A thorough overview, Islam et interdits alimentaires sheds light on this religious principle meant to suppress our animal instinct and to perpetuate our own species.