Tosefta for Bava Kamma 233:8

מעיקרא סברי כרבי אבין דאמר רבי אבין זרק חץ מתחילת ארבע ולבסוף ארבע וקרע שיראין בהליכתו פטור שהרי עקירה צורך הנחה היא ומתחייב בנפשו

learnt: Originally it was said that [liability will attach] for defiling [terumah] or for mixing13 [it with unconsecrated grain], but it was subsequently laid down that it will also attach for vitiating [wine]. Now, this is so [only] because it was so laid down subsequently, whereas had it not been so stated subsequently this would not have been so. Is the reason for this not because we are unable to derive anything from a matter of mere fine? — No: originally the view of R. Abin was taken,7

Tosefta Horayot

One who eats a sheketz (a detestable thing), he is an apostate. How so? An apostate [is one who] eats neveilot (carrion flesh) and terefot (meat from an animal that was not properly slaughtered), sheketzim or untithed produce, one who eats pig flesh or drinks wine of libation, or who desecrates the Sabbath (see Sanh. 8:2), and one who pours [wine of libation] (see Bava Kamma 117a:5). Rabbi Yosei son of Rabbi Yehudah says, even one who wears kilayim (i.e., garments of wool and linen). Rabbi Shimon son of Eliezer says, even one who does something that his inclination does not desire [i.e., even if the above acts were done without an evil intent].

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