IS IT OKAY TO EAT BEASTS THAT ARE FOUND DEAD?

Exodus 22:31. And ye shall be holy men unto Me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

Leviticus 17:15. And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

Deuteronomy 14:21. Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

The eating of beasts found dead was forbidden for the Israelites.  Those creatures who were killed by other beasts are to be fed only to the dogs, while those who died 'of itself' (by natural causes) can be given to non-Israelites.  Of course, Israelites weren't always completely submissive to God and did occasionally eat such beasts, making the 'bathing' mentioned in Leviticus necessary.  The area that critics label a 'problem' is that Deuteronomy says that eating creatures who died of natural causes is not forbidden for non-Israelites, while Leviticus says that even non-Israelites who eat such creatures must bathe.  But what the critics fail to understand is that 'unclean' and 'forbidden' are two entirely different things.  Women who were menstruating, for example, were considered 'unclean', but it was hardly forbidden for women to menstruate!  Essentially, non-Israelites were allowed to eat creatures who died of natural causes, provided that they bathed afterwards.  Not a contradiction.