Why don't jewish people eat pork?

Question

I'm Jewish and I know. I want to see if anyone else knows the answer.

Jim B, you are right but it won't let me choose you as best answer for 3 hours.

Answer 1

I know why and I am not Jewish. It is because the meat was not clean and people would die and get worms from it. People of the time did not know they had to cook the meat done to get rid of bad things.

Now what ever you was told in your bible is a myth that was past on over the years and was because god made the pig as his and people was told not to eat it by god and when they did they would get sick and die. So it was magic that god was doing and killing people because the did not obey him.

So tell me why if it was not because people at the time was not very smart and believed in myths?

Answer 2

Trichinosis.

3,000 years ago people didn't know what caused the illness, only that it was related to eating pig. But just instructing people not to do something because it's bad for them seldom works - look at the Surgeon General's warning on cigarettes, and how many people still smoke? But if you tell them God has commanded them not to do it, they are much more likely to obey.

Same is true of the ban on shellfish. However, I'm pretty sure the ban on gay sex was just somebody imposing their personal morals on everybody else - they didn't have AIDS back then.

Incidentally, we now know that you can prevent trichinosis if you cook the pork thoroughly. Somebody should tell the Jews.

Answer 3

Because it's not Kosher. You can find the answers in Leviticus.

One historical note, it is believed that these foods that are deemed un-kosher were given this distinction because of health reasons. For example, shellfish are excluded from the diet. Shellfish if not prepared properly could make one sick due to toxins found within the organism... Pork because back in those days it was very easy to catch trichinosis from pork. It may have seemed to these primitive people that evil spirits visited harm on them for eating these things since they had no knowledge of chemistry or microbiology.

Answer 4

For one thing, the eating of pork (and many other types of flesh) is forbidden by God in the Jewish Scriptures.
But I don't think this law is arbitrary; pork can make you sick if it's not properly prepared.
Muslims don't eat pork either.

Answer 5

Judaism prohibits the eating of any animal that does not both have cloven hooves and chew cud. The pig has cloven hooves, but does not chew its cud as cows do and, so, is prohibited. Jewish people are also forbidden from eating seafood that does not have scales, such as shrimp.

Answer 6

The text of the torah explicitly states those physical characteristics required of an animal for it to be edible by Jews. Pigs do not have all the characteristics, therefore, they are not to be eaten. As to why "those" traits are required, that is simply because God told us so in the text. We don't try to find reasons.

Answer 7

because God has told all men what to eat and not eat;
1ti 4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
1ti 4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
1ti 4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer

It means what it says. Every creature of God---that is, creatures set apart by Scripture (or, as verse 5 puts it, "sanctified by the Word of God") is good for food. (The "creatures of God" that are good for food and of which we are to thankfully receive obviously do not include slugs, maggots, kittens, or pigs, among other things.) Where, in the Word of God, are such meats sanctified? You'll find them in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14.

Answer 8

Ugh because they refuse to acknowledge that the New Testament says they can eat pork.It was an unclean animal.LOL alot like the muslim religion.

Answer 9

anything that is alive will give you life. you eat what you are. eat chicken your generations will evolve in chicken-like features like slender legs and arms, eat pork and your future blod line of generations will evolve in pig-like features such as flat-nosed, big butt, large legs. if looks matters to you then choose the food you take, if simple being alive is what matters to you, then eat whatever edible came from the living. if you want to live short, eat artificial food

Answer 10

Well because they still live in the Old Testement. They believe the Messiah is still yet to come. The follow the old laws.