Why eating pork is prohibited in Islam,and some Christians religious?

Answer 1

because pigs are unclean animals.and they carry worms and clog your arteries.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_foods




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork
Maimonides, the Jewish court physician to Muslim sultan Saladin in the twelfth century, agreed with other Muslims and Jews of his day by declaring that pork was an "unclean" meat because of pigs' dirty habits; when pigs cannot find water, which is often the case in the Middle East, they have to bathe in mud or their own feces. Maimonides therefore asserted that pork was an unhealthy and unwholesome meat to consume. He was the first to justify the taboo on secular rather than religious reasons.

Medical evidence supporting this early notion did not become available until 1859, when a clinical study found a connection between undercooked pork and trichinosis. This caused a period of unrest for some Jews, as some began to argue that pork was safe to eat so long as it was fully cooked. Orthodox Jews, however, were appalled at this and insisted that there was some other divine meaning behind kosher law. A third view is that the restriction is arbitrary, a way to test the faith. The trichinosis theory is nowadays widely rejected.

The cultural materialistic anthropologist Marvin Harris thinks that the main reason was ecological-economical. Pigs require water and shade woods with seeds, but those conditions are scarce in Israel and Arabia. They cannot forage grass like ruminants. Instead, they compete with humans for expensive grain. Unlike many other forms of livestock, pigs are omnivorous scavengers, eating virtually anything they come across, including carrion and refuse. This was deemed unclean.

Hence a Middle Eastern society keeping large stocks of pigs would destroy their ecosystem. Harris points out how, while the Hebrews are also forbidden to eat camels and fish without scales, Arab nomads couldn't afford to starve in the desert while having camels around.

He also points to Albania where a partition is established: Christians keep pigs and live in the oak woods, while Muslims keep goats and live in places that the foraging habits of goats keep unforested.

Some food psychologists point out the similarity between the Mosaic food laws as laid out in Leviticus and the natural 'disgust' reaction that all people generally show to unfamiliar meats (see the work of Paul Rozin). That suggests that the food taboos were a codification of existing practice rather than the imposition of a new rule, an attempt to give a religious explanation for an existing state of affairs in which the early Israelites did not eat pork etc. while other groups they knew did.

Answer 3

Pork is an unclean meat. Pig is an unclean animal.

But in most countries when people consume this animal they take care in making it clean before eating it or slaughtering it or in some cases they have immunities that allow them to eat it.

In USA it is kept paned up for 2 month minimum, given strong anti-biotic and then certified for human consumption. Still care must be taken in cooking it. It should be slightly over cooked, never under cooked.

Germans have a dish for making spread, this is the only time it is not cooked at all but it is pickled to effectively make it safe for eating. This pig themselves are also very clean and kept in pan all the time and there feed is also very clean, and are Fed certain items only, watched and kept washed all the time.

Answer 4

Pork is the closest thing to human flesh and therefore anything that a pig gets sick off of is liable to be transmitted to us if the meat is not prepared properly.


Many old groups simply stopped eating the meat after trichinosis became the standard of the day. It was easier to put this into religious law rather than have to continually keep having to remind the others.

Answer 5

As explained to a Christian by a Muslim. since a pig eats it's own feces, it is considered to be unclean and therefore the eating of pork is prohibited. This is also why ham is served on Christmas, it is a slam to the Jewish race for rejecting Jesus as the savior.

Answer 6

The pig wallows and lives in it's own filth, if it is domesticated and penned in. The primary reason is the digestive tract of most animals is 24 hours, with a pig it is 4 hours, that is why it poops so often. Having said that, the worms or other diseases are more present and a better chance a human could become ill from them. If a man is ill then he is less likely to be in the spirit of God, so eater beware.

Answer 7

The guidelines of what is acceptable to eat is clear in the Bible. Pork, shell fish etc. There were no biologists back then. Still Jesus knew what was good for your body and what was not.
Pork has worms, high cholesterol and diseases.
Even today, doctors will tell you pork isn't good for you.
But, the kicker is, how did they know that back then????

Answer 8

Pig is unclean and Jews do not eat pork either

Answer 9

Pig eats faeces of humans, and other dirt.
It is an intermediate host to dangerous worms like the tape worm.
It is nature's scavenger, so let it live and clean the dirt arround.

Answer 10

In Jewish Scriptures, G-d forbade it.
ANY animal that is a scavenger is forbidden. Think of it this way...would you open your vacuum, remove the vacuum bag, cook it up & eat it?
Of COURSE not!
But, scavengers are just that; they eat the filth & debris from other animals.
Then we turn around & eat them.
Thihnk about what you are putting into your body.

Answer 11

I'm no expert but I believe that the pig is considered an unclean animal. If you went to a pig farm you could see why.