Why do some religions forbid eating pork?

Answer 1

Pork has traditionally been a meat that requires longer cooking times and higher heat to remove the presence of bacteria and microscopic worms. Thus the texts that outline the dietary standards for these civilizations and religions forbade pork due to health concerns. This transposed into people considering that devils, demons and other denizens of evil resided in the porcine animals. You can also see this effect in the Devil sometimes being seen with cloven hoof.

Answer 2

Some religions forbid eating pork because of certain dangers inherent in undercooking or other preparations limitations. Others forbid eating pork because the animal is considered "unclean"; though this is not really a physical assessment. When an animal is considered unclean, it can be for many reasons, such as considering any animal with cloven hooves to be unsuitable for consumption. Perhaps it is considered unclean because of its dietary characteristics. Usually religions consider certain foods out-of-bounds simply because they are forbidden in an inspired law given by their God or because the animal is representative of other religions. Pigs were once worshipped in certain areas around the Sea of Galilee, by the pagan peoples who lived there. This may have been one reason that pork is not a kosher food.

Answer 3

Pork is considered to be an unclean animal. Pork contains many dangerous bacteria and even tapeworms. Back when those religions were established there was no effective way to sanitize the meat thus it was forbidden. Judaism and Islam are two examples. As for the reasoning that pigs themselves are unclean, it is entirely incorrect. Pigs if left to themselves will all defecate in the same spot all the time. They only bathe in mud because they are unable to sweat and are very suseptible to sunburns. So the mud acts as a cooling agent and sunblock.

Answer 4

Some religions forbid eating pork, because in some cultures pigs are considered filthy and unfit for eating. Then in some cultures the pig as well as other animals, are considered sacred. These cultures making pigs, and other animals sacred on the belief of reincarnation.

Answer 5

In the Bible, it states that an animal with a cloven hoof is classed as dirty. As a result some religions forbid pork.

Answer 6

Some religions say that pork is unclean, not because of where it lives or how it eats, but because a pig does not sweat and rid itself of impurities. The cloven hoof theory came much later and probably out of ignorance, they do believe it to be of the devil, but that is of course all negated in the new testament of the the bible. That all things are from God, and it is what comes out of the mouth of a man that defiles a man. Blessings.

Answer 7

Way back in the founding of the religions, the jews knew from experience that pork and other meats were unsanitary unless fully cooked, as they did not have the ability to cook the meat to the right temperature, the "ban" came about, as the people feared the sickness caused by the food poisoning.

Answer 8

Under levitical law (jewish orthodoxy) and Islam, pigs are considered unclean. Because they will eat anything including there own filth, they have a cloven hoof and do not chew the cud. And due to the fact that, that it was just recently discovered (last 200 years)that pork if not cooked thoroughly, exposes those who eat it to trichonosis, a parasite.

Answer 9

The religion that forbids eating pork is usually muzlums, They believe that pigs are beast and the meat makes you go mad.

Answer 10

It comes from living in a hot place, in a time with no refridgeration. It was dangerous to eat pork. There were no moral issues involved. Like other things involving religion, it takes a while to catch up to modern times. It wasn't that long ago that the Catholic Church finally agreed that the world wasn't flat!
(But their position on birth control is spot on!)