Geo.,
We agree that redemption is possible up until that last moment of life. But, repentance and forgiveness is still necessary for it to occur.
Glad you asked about the dietary structures.
Act 10:10-15 is especially pertinent I think. "Then he became very hungry and wanted to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened and an object like a great sheet bound at the four corners, descending to him and let down to the earth. In it were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, creeping things, and birds of the air. And a voice came to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat".
But Peter said, "Not so, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common or unclean."
And a voice spoke to him again the second time, "What God has cleansed you must not call common."
God, on that day, pronounced all animals and birds as cleansed for our consumption. I loves me some bacon, wropped 'round a duck breast!
All my best, SRH
