Jews dont eat pork whats all that about?

Answer 1

THEY R STRANGE AS THE PIG IS THE ONLY ANIMAL U CAN EAT ALL OF.

Answer 2

It has to do with our dietary laws called Kashrut it how we can and can not eat our food. You will find these laws in Lev. 11:3; Deut. 14:6. The more common word you might know is Kosher.

The reason pork is not eaten is because is unclean, because basically a pig just eats anything but there is more than just what it eats. Animals like cow, sheep, goat and deer are kosher.

Any shellfish is not kosher either. The mixing of any milk products with meat is also not kosher. So in a observant Jewish household there is separation of meat and milk products since the 2 are never mixed.

If you look at Kosher dietary laws they are actually helpful in keeping heathly.

Muslims also do not eat pork either nor some Shekihs do not eat any meat at all and Buddist well don't either.

There are Jews who eat pork and some who don't. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Muslims don't eat pork either. A Muslim friend explalined to me that there are two reasons. Firstly, a pig will eat the excrement of other animals, and even its own. This creates a clear risk of transmission of intestinal parasites. Secondly, in the days before refrigeration, when this prohibition was first laid down in Judaism and Islam, pork would deteriorate very rapidly in the heat and become positively dangerous to eat. Even today, it has to be cooked longer than other meats to kill the parasites which may be in it. So a piece of medical advice, sound at the time, became enshrined in the religious teaching, where it remains even though eating pork would not pose a health risk with modern farming and conservation methods. I imagine the same kinds of reasons lie behind the taboo on eating dogs in most societies.

Answer 4

Regardless of the subsequent religious reasons for Jews not eating pork, the original reason was more one of geographical practicalities:- let me explain....

the Jews were historically a 'desert' people. One of the main difficulties in this region was how to preserve cleanly and safely...at that time there was no salt in order to 'preserve'. The Jews discovered that pork had little natural preserves which were present in other food stuff. Therefore, the eating of pork became forbidden since its unreliability as a meat to be eaten over a longer period couldn't be assured. From there you have the current 'Kosher' rules...but as is often the case, antecedents to all of this issues have quite mundane excuses!

Answer 5

I think it was originally common sense, but brought into the religion.
Before refrigeration in England we used to say, 'Never eat pork when there ISN'T an R in the month. ie:- May, June etc. in hot countries this makes sense all the time if they have no refrigeration. Dodgy meat pork in the hot weather.

Between Matts answer and this answer is the fundamantal reasoning. Forget the religious clap trap.

Answer 6

jews only acknowledge the Old Testament since they do not regard Jesus Christ as their saviour and in the old testament it says that you should not eat pork because pigs are unclean and it says the same about other types of food although i dont know the list but it includes things like shrimp and prawns. However in the New Testament God declared every animal clean and therefore they can all be eaten.

Answer 7

it's not just Jews. There's a religion called Adventist and they don't eat pork either. And these people believe that pigs have evil int them because on the bible there's a scripture about pigs been possessed by demons. But i think that is not the case, people make their own interpretation about the holly scriptures.

Answer 8

Pork takes a lot of cooking, especially in the olden days, to kill the parasites. Fire fuel is scarce in arid, dry deserts and it would be prohibitive to accumulate enough wood, etc. to properly cook the pork.

Answer 9

I do not think that Muslims eat pork either.
Do they have more in common with each other than they wish to admit?

Answer 10

For an animal to be kosher..ie fit to be eaten under Jewish law, it must have split hooves and it must chew its cud (be a ruminant). Pigs are not ruminants although they do have split hooves.

The term usually translated as unclean, means ritually impure...it has nothing to do with the hygenic habits of the animal.

Answer 11

I think they dont eat pork because it sits in its own **** on the farm so they class it as dirty meat. I could be wrong though.