Are pigs really dirty animals?

Question

I heard that they like the mud to cool off. Also do they really eat just about anything? Like garbage? Are they carnivorous? How come Jewish people avoid eating pork products??

Answer 1

They do like the mud to cool off. Baby pigs are cute.

In old times, hogs ran wild in the woods and ate acorns and whatever else they found. They were skinnier and tougher and were called razorbacks. After that, hogs were put in pens and they used to lay around in mud and garbage. This is the reason that people used to think of pigs as being dirty.

Pigs are omnivorous.
They eat wathever they fing on their way
Did you know they eat each other's tail...? and occasionaly their babies?

Jewish people don't avoid eating pork, it's prohibited in judaism as well as in islam. In judaism the prohibition comes from the book of leviticus. on this book there are laws regarding and hygiene, from incest, to how to dispose from a dead person or animal, to menstruation, or after giving birth. regarding pork, you are what you eat, and pigs were the filthiest animals. the human body is seen as sacred and it was prohibited to eat an animal so unholy that eats his own feces.

To this day in third world countries pigs choose to be in garbage.
Today in developped countries farmers raise hogs on livestock farms. The animals are kept on clean pastureland or in clean buildings. Altough they still eat feces.

Another source
The pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth. It lives and thrives on muck, faeces and dirt. It is the best scavenger known that exist In the villages they don’t have modern toilets and the villagers excrete in the open air. Very often excreta is cleared by pigs.

Some may argue that in advanced countries like Australia, pigs are bred in very clean and hygienic conditions. Even in these hygienic conditions the pigs are kept together in sties. No matter how hard you try to keep them clean they are filthy by nature. They eat and enjoy their own as well as their neighbour’s excreta.

wikipedia
Pigs are most commonly associated with eating not only their own feces, but those of other animals and humans. In parts of the third world, where villager dwellers excrete in the open, pigs are known to eat this excretia.


wikipedia
Pigs harbour a range of parasites and diseases that can be easily transmitted to humans. These include trichinosis, cysticercosis, and brucellosis. Very commonly, pigs are also known to host large concentrations of parasitic ascarid worms in their digestive tract. The presence of these diseases and parasites is one of the main reasons why pork meat should always be well cooked or cured before eating.

Bad effects of pork consumption
Pig's bodies contain many toxins, worms and latent diseases. Although some of these infestations are harbored in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far more predisposed to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because pigs like to scavenge and will eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta (including their own), garbage, and other pigs.

Influenza (flu) is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is harbored in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and humans in the cooler months. Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of influenza. Pig meat contains excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to itching and inflammation; growth hormone, which promotes inflammation and growth; sulfur-containing mesenchymal mucus, which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc. Sulfur helps cause firm human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage. Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and obesity, probably due to its high cholesterol and saturated fat content. The pig is the main carrier of the taenia solium worm, which is found it its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has trichinosis from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork. Many people have no symptoms to warn them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are not noticed during meat inspections, nor does salting or smoking kill them. Few people cook the meat long enough to kill the trichinae. The rat (another scavenger) also harbors this disease. There are dozens of other worms, germs, diseases and bacteria which are commonly found in pigs, many of which are specific to the pig, or found in greater frequency in pigs.

Compare this to goat meat...


Now check this
http://www.giveshare.org/Health/porkeatdanger.html

wikipedia
The pig is the carrier of various helminthes, like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, etc. One of the most dangerous and common is the Taenia Solium, which in a layman’s terminology is called tapeworm. Tapeworms may transplant to human intestines as well by consuming untreated or uncooked meat from pigs or other animals. Many of these parasites, including the notorious trichina worms that causes trichinosis, are specific to the pig, or found in greater frequency in pigs, although most of them are also common in other lifestock animals.


Now:
Pork meat has a thick layer of fat just under the skin. Eating pork and fat can cause clots in arteries which increase the risks of heart attact

One thing one learns when exploring the leviticus it's very practical. There are some quite good medical reasons for following the food health laws. Here are some of them.

All 'clean' animals are ruminants. That is they have four stomachs. This ensures a much more thorough processing of food than is possible with one stomach, and less pollutants are stored in the flesh. It has also been discovered that ruminants are not subject to flesh worms. These can be acquired from eating the flesh of almost every other animal. The pig which got special mention as 'unclean' stores poisons in its body fat. A snake cannot kill a pig. The poison is just stored in the fat under the skin and is ingested by anything that subsequently eats that pig.
Concerning the flesh of the pig: the meat takes 4 days to digest in the bowel instead of 2 for 'clean' meats. Bowel cancer has been linked to excessive meat consumption and if the length of time spent in the bowel has anything to do with it then pork is twice as bad as beef.


about intensive pig farming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_pig_farming

Images of pigs
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=pigs&btnG=Search

Now... here is a web page in defense of pigs
http://www.fundforanimals.org/uploads/vol6_no2_Pigs.pdf
another one
http://academic.scranton.edu/student/MURTAUGHT2/DEFAULT.HTML

http://www.greenworldcenter.org/gharightfr7.html

i have bias, but i grew up seeing pigs in very dirty conditions
http://www.greenworldcenter.org/gharightfr7.html

I am not talking of the domestic pet pig, that is bathed, etc... But in my opinion it's not a clean animal,

Hope the answer helped

Answer 2

Dirty Pigs

Answer 3

Pigs are very clean. VERY clean, in fact. A big reason about why they wallow is that despite the old saying, pigs do not sweat. On a hot day, they use the mud like sweat and to stop them burning. They can be litter trained easily because they're so clever. (4th most intelligent animal on the planet, only after humans, the greater apes, and dolphins... yes, they're more intelligent than a dog) Pigs in a factory farm will look filthy, but then again, so would you if you were kept in a tiny pen with several inches of waste below you with no access to clean water to bathe in.

Answer 4

Are Pigs Clean

Answer 5

Pigs lay in mud to cool they don't have sweat glands. They eat garbage because that is what they are given to eat.

Jewish do not eat pork because it is forbidden by the Bible. You can't eat an animal that has a cloven hoof but does not chew the cud. I believe that is what the Bible says.

And there is history to back that up. Pork is very likely to be infected with an little parasite, a worm Trichinosis. If you eat under cooked pork you can get this parasite and it is apparently, incurable. Way back biblical times they did not have the means of keeping food clean and preserved. Nor did they actually know about under cooking or over cooking meats. Cooking was very crude. They had no way of knowing what caused the illness they got after eating pork.Trichinosis infection is very debilitating. Forbidding eating pork was the best way to prevent people from getting this disease.

According to the Jewish faith the edict to not eat pork was handed down from God.

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Are pigs really dirty animals?
I heard that they like the mud to cool off. Also do they really eat just about anything? Like garbage? Are they carnivorous? How come Jewish people avoid eating pork products??

Answer 7

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Depends on how you define "dirty" Look up coprophagia, which is something pigs do and so they are considered dirty by many cultures. I really liked Agnes's answer, and I just want to add that wallowing in mud also may protect them from sunburn. Their skin is very sensitive to ours and while most wild pigs are dark in colour, they may still get burned from solar radiation just like us.

Answer 8

Actually no they are not they only like mud to cool off. My pigs absolutely loves baths more than rolling in the dirt.

Answer 9

Pigs will eat just about anything....that is why what is fed to them is called "slop." They roll around and lay in the mud to keep cool. Jewish people do not eat pork, b/c God gives them the command to not eat of any animal with a cloven or split hoof ( Its in the bible cant recall where off the top of my head). In other words pork is not kosher or blessed by God.

Answer 10

People who sit here worrying about getting sick over pigs are wasted souls who have no compassion or respect for Gods creation. HEY did u all 4get they are all Gods creations no matter what they are. Dirty or not? Look at your subhuman mind about how clean you R. How often do you take a bath/shower or just when it rains? Stop kidding yourselves pig humans!!!

Answer 11

The humans eat the food which pigs eat leaving them nothing but filth to eat.