A command not to emulate pagans comes right after laws against eating blood. That's probably not a coincidence. There's a lot of blood involved in Temple worship.

The temptation to ritualize the consumption of blood in the context of religious sacrifices must be huge! (If you doubt me, consider the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.) But we are commanded not to worship our God the way pagans worship theirs. Drinking blood dishonors both God and the animal (or man) from which it came.
Deuteronomy 12:29-31

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Be careful to obey all these words that I command you, that it may go well with you and with your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of YHVH your God.
#deuteronomy 12:28
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Do you want a better life for your children? Keep Torah and teach them to do likewise. Do what's right in God's eyes. Don't worry about how men see it.

Blood pudding, blood sausage, blood soup... Moses and the Apostles agree that God hates it. Don't eat blood!

On the other hand, it's impossible to remove 100% of the blood from meat. No matter how hard you try, there will always be some trace of blood somewhere in the tissue. Drain the blood from the animal and then stop worrying about it. Most of the red fluid remaining in red meat is myoglobin, not blood.

If a slaughtered animal was bled properly, I think salt koshering is also a waste of time and salt. But you should do as your conscience dictates. There's nothing morally wrong with trying to remove every drop of fluid if that's what you want to do.
Deuteronomy 12

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And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”
Mark 7:5

The confrontation between #yeshua and the Pharisees in Mark 7 wasn't about clean vs unclean meat. It was about eating with unwashed hands, something that God never gave any instructions about. They would accost someone on the street for offending their social protocols, while inventing all kinds of convoluted justifications for breaking God's actual commandments.

They were like modern Christian churches who call alcohol "satanic" and then ask God to bless the ham sandwich they eat for lunch at their office desk on Saturday.

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#yeshua taught against man-made traditions that kept people from being able to obey #torah. He never taught against keeping God's Law.

The Pharisees hid God's word from the people and enforced their own rules instead. Even so, people who loved God still managed to keep God's instructions reasonably well, just like today. Christians often proudly claim not to keep Torah, but the joke's on them. They keep much of it anyway.