Commentary for Bekhorot 19:29

דקתני סיפא רבי שמעון אומר

Since [these animals mentioned] have marks of a clean animal!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore the first passage with reference to the carcass of an unclean animal etc. requiring the intention of being used as food, must be in accordance with the view of the Rabbis., Hence we infer that the Rabbis do not hold that its prohibition marks it out as fit to receive food uncleanness and therefore the Baraitha quoted above by Rabbah, where the Rabbis say that the first-birth of an ass receives the uncleanness relating to food, must deal with a case where he expressed the intention of Using it as food. And R. Simeon maintains that it does not receive uncleanness, because it is food which cannot be given to a gentile to eat, I.e., It is forbidden to be used. Rabbah consequently is able to deduce from this that an ass which had its neck broken because it was not redeemed is forbidden to be used.');">¹⁹</span>

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