zorro
Pork is not a "dirty " meat as it was in the past. To enter a modern day indoor pork production facility, you have to shower, and put on clean coveralls. Every precaution is being taken to prevent disease and detailed for pig welfare. Outdoor production is better and works well also. The pig diet is calculated so all nutrients a hog needs it gets. It is the cleanest meat compared to a chicken or beef.
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Chiangmai
Zorro, pigs in the U.S. have been considered clean animals for many years. The food they eat is controlled very closely. You could say that pigs today are as clean as other animals like cows and chickens.
The reason why the Muslims do not eat pigs is the same reason as the Jews. The practice is due to obedience rather than pigs being unclean animals. There are some Christian denominations that do not eat pork as well. The Seventh-Day Adventist Church does not allow the eating of pork for the same reason.
Lastly, pigs in the Biblical days were called swine. This name gives the feeling that pigs are even dirtier than they really are.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
mycatsmom
neither muslim nor jewish people eat pork. It goes back to their ancient ancestors in the bible getting a message from God that they wrote into their laws. God told them to not eat meat from an animal with cloven hooves. Mabye God, in all his wisdom, was trying to protect them from getting Trichinosis.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
missactive
It is not unusual to find food associated with religious custom and practice. For example Halal meat, Kosher foods. Hindu's forbid the slaughter of cows (beef) and many Catholics continue the religious custom of eating only fish on Fridays.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
Sajid Kashmiri
jhharlan
Dollybird
zoor, it has nothing to do with indoor pork production etc, as you stated
The reason why Muslims also in Judaism the pig is forbidden to be eaten goes back to the time of Abraham. Pig s cannot be slaughtered at neck due to its anatomy. To slaugher any animal including any fowl, Muslims makes an incision through the jugular veins, leaving all other organs and veins intact, thus causing the death of animal and fowl, from total loss of blood from the body. This is similar to the Kasher law of Judaism. Chemical analysis of the blood shows that it contains an abundance of uric acid, which is bad for human health. Animals and fowl slaughtered in this way is kermed Halaal meat.
| 13 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Tommyh
Baldy Man
