Or do I just think pork is kinda disgusting…
I don’t understand your reasoning specifically for pork but less animals eaten is better in any case.
It’s about as good an idea as Hindus have about beef 🤷
If any of religion has an actual good idea it’s perhaps the Jains for being vegetarian/vegan. Animal suffering aside, it’s a great idea for environmental reasons in this Anthropocene epoch.
No they werent on to something because the rationale given doesnt line up with any legit reason to not eat pork. So at best they just were exercising an abundance of caution without understanding why. Pork needs like any meat to be prepared properly for consumption. If its a food they werent very knowledgeable on they wouldnt know how to prepare it safely. So instead of learning how they just banned it.
Now if you want to make an argument for not eating pork with modern knowledge you can. Pigs are extremely smart and even more so than dogs and some studies suggest chimps. So theres the moral argument not to eat it. But that isn’t very convincing to me for pork. All animals are pretty smart and clearly have feelings and emotions and i eat them so why single out pigs to be nice to? I would like to see a transition to lab grown meats eventually, and for farms to treat animals humanely. Its not a very high priority for me on reforming society tho since we dont even treat eachother humanely yet.
Also to get in front of it before someone says “just be vegan/vegetarian then”. I was for like 10 years and eventually had to stop because due to health related dietary restrictions i couldn’t eat enough foods to get all the nutrients i needed. I have allergies and intolerances that if i were to stop eating animal products i wouldnt be able to eat the plant based alternatives that give the same type of nutrients. So i dont have a choice but to eat animals.
In the context of a semi-nomadic culture that had just conquered the urban Canaanites, pigs were city animals distinct from the nomadic sheep and goats—a ban on pork would prevent cultural assimilation. Same with the ban on shellfish that would have been standard in the coastal cities.
For a parallel, look at segregation-era white Americans banning music and other cultural pratices associated with African-Americans.
No. Pork is delicious. 🐖🥓🤤
The lack of bacon is the main driver in every middle eastern conflict since 1722
Like most everything else, you gotta cook it right for it to be good. To be fair I like pork mostly when it’s cooked until it starts to fall apart (ham, pulled pork and so on).
Pulled pork is fine, ham kinda, but I find pork to be too fatty in my taste generally… plus, I can’t get the image of long pork out of my head
Pigs live in filth, back before modern food handling standards people would get sick a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork#:~:text=The pig is considered an,Islam%2C and parts of Christianity.
Exactly this. If you think about it, regardless of if the religious reason was real or not, people did not know how to handle food safely, and pork is one of the worst when it comes to bacteria growth. My SO is a food scientist and they said it well, people probably just got sick from pork a lot more than other meats. So obviously god was saying not to eat it.
3000ish years later we have things like thermometers and know what bacteria are and how they grow. So I don’t know if the rules came down today if it would say “don’t eat pork” or if it’d be “verify your pork has been handled safely and cooked thoroughly”
Onions live in filth. Potatoes live in filth. All fruits and vegetables live in filth, often fertilized with manure.
So what the fuck does filth have anything to do with anything?
Onions and potatoes don’t give you trichinosis.
Okay. Undercooked meat may yield bad parasitic worms. So what, what makes pork any different than any other meat in that regard?
Always cook meat thoroughly and that shouldn’t be a problem. Pork ain’t any different.
Tricinosis was commonly found in pork before modern food prep. It’s likely why it was a forbidden meat in many middle eastern cultures. Look at the list of animals that spread the disease — it’s not like ancient Jews would be eating walrus.
https://www.cdc.gov/trichinellosis/about/index.html
A lot of these ancient traditions came about because someone got sick from eating or doing something.
Food preparation wasn’t as well understood then as it is today and pork carried with it a risk that poultry, beef and others didn’t hence the rules against eating it.
Apparently they still don’t understand food preparation, otherwise these fast food joints wouldn’t have had to pull onions off their foods.
Why you think I mentioned onions first? The cycle continues…
Permitting something as idiotic as religion to dictate what I eat is similar as having racism determine who I can fuck…
As an adult, I determine both myself
Actually you determine the first, your partner determines the second… Or should.
You would have to have something more concrete to tie a religious commandment to be considered “On to something”. You really got a nothing statement going on.
Yeah, pretty much…
Pork is amazing.
Uh, ok.
