Why do you think Muslims and Jews don't eat pork?

Question

I know it is a religious thing but why?

Answer 1

Pork is actually very bad for you. It is forbidden because it can harm you. That is usually why a religion will forbid something. For example, when you kill a pig, there will always be blood in the flesh unlike other animals. This is because pigs don't have necks. When you slaughter an animal at the neck, all the blood comes out and the meat stays good. Since pigs don't have necks, not all the blood will get out. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

I don't eat pork and I'm a christian! Many christian i know don't eat pork b/c its bad for u.

God laid out food we can eat and can't eat. Why do think we can do what ever we want. If we disregard the old Testament, that is basically over 60% of the bible and the New Testament refer back to the Old Testament.



Eat ye that which is good." Isaiah 55:2. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31.

"For, behold, the Lord will come with fire ... and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many. They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves ... eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord." Isaiah 66:15-17.

God clearly doesn't want us to eat pork...but Christian don't follow the whole bible.

But didn't this law of clean and unclean animals originate at Sinai? Wasn't it for the Jews only, and didn't it end at the cross?


Noah's sacrifice of a clean animal (Genesis 8:20) shows that he understood the difference between clean and unclean.
"And the Lord said unto Noah, ... Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens ... and of beasts that are not clean by two." Genesis 7:1, 2.


No indeed! The Bible has ample evidence that there were clean and unclean animals from the very dawn of Creation. Noah lived long before any Jews existed, but he knew of the clean and unclean, because he took into the ark the clean animals by "sevens" and the unclean by "twos." Revelation 18:2 refers to some birds as being unclean just before the second coming of Christ. The death of Christ had no altering effect whatever on these health laws, since the Bible says that all who break them will be destroyed when Jesus returns (Isaiah 66:15-17). The Jew's stomach and digestive system in no way differs from that of a Gentile. These health laws are for all people for all time.

If u eat that, u might as well eat a rat b/c rats do the same thing a pig does(eat anything they can see).

Food is a big deal, it all started in the garden of Eden when Eve ate the fruit. God curse mankind b/c of that.

Answer 3

The first answer is the correct one. While many of these other responses contain accurate information, i.e. pork is bad for you, they do not address the question. As a Jew, I can tell you that we do not eat from the pig because it is forbidden. It is as simple as that. While the pig is singled out and named an "abomination" in the Torah, it falls into the category of proscribed animals because it does not chew a cud (one of the two prerequisites for an animal acceptable for consumption - the other being a true, cloven hoof). Any acceptable animal must still be slaughtered, inspected, butchered, and prepared in the appropriate fashion to be consumed.

Answer 4

Actually, it was a very practical thing, and was made a religious thing based on ignorance.

A long time ago, people ate pork and sometimes got very sick and died. They didn't know why that happened, but they knew it did. So quite practically they forbade eating pork to keep people from getting sick and dying. To give the prohibition extra "weight," they made it a "commandment from god."

Thanks to science, we know the reason people sometimes got sick and died from eating pork: pork often contains organisms that can be very harmful to humans if the meat is not cooked thoroughly. Cook pork completely to a temperature of at least 170 deg. F, and all of the harmful organisms are killed. Cure the pork in brine (such as is done with ham and bacon), and that also kills all the harmful organisms. It's perfectly safe to eat pork under those conditions.
Ancient people didn't know about bacteria and other micro-organisms...and they didn't have scientific methods of determining the cause of the sickness and the way to avoid it. We do. There's nothing "evil" or "dirty" about pork -- but they assumed there was becaue of the effects of eating it not properly cooked.

Yet another example of how ancient superstitions get trumped by modern science :)

Peace.

Answer 5

Muslims, Jews and Christians all use the Old Testament as part of their religious teachings. The old Testament states that pork shouldn't be eaten. Like everything else in these religions, what they want to subscribe to is picked and chosen and used for their own purposes.

Answer 6

It is Old Testament ( both Muslims and Jews ) and God was trying to relate to them that pork had too much bad factors to be edible ( that changed through FAITH ).
An analogy comment: Watch what you take into your SPIRITUAL because it could make you weak and cause MANY problems.
Through the cleansing of prayer ALL is edible IN THE FLESH, and through the cleansing of the Spirit, God will : " If you drink ANY deadly thing , it will not harm you ".

Answer 7

I used to wonder why or what that law was given for. Basically, all laws from God are basically for man's well being. Back in the Old Testament, pork tended to get wormy etc and has a very short shelf life as they say. Basically, it was not healthy to eat back then under the conditions they lived in. In todays world that is not the case. But Jews and Muslims still follow the "law" and not grace which was given when Jesus Christ came on the scene in the New Testament (Covenant). Jesus gave a new law, it is not what goes INTO the mouth of man that causes him to sin but what comes OUT of the mouth. Something to think about.

Answer 8

I'm neither Jew nor Muslim but I don't eat pork either. Yes, I used to and loved it but I stopped for these reasons:

I found out that pigs don't sweat and their bodies retain all impurities under the skin (I used to love chewing on it.)

Also, pigs eat garbage, carrion, their own waste, anything whatsoever. Remember they like the wet mud which keeps them cool since they cannot sweat. When they pass their waste into that slime, they turn around and lap it up. They do not discriminate.

The bible teaches that any animal, fowl, or fish that does so is unclean for human consumption. We are forbidden to ingest such flesh since we introduce the impurities from that flesh into our systems. Later on, we find ourselves sick with one thing or another and are unable to trace it back to its source.

Why risk it?

Answer 9

It's in the Old Testament, and it's there because pork doesn't keep well in desert environments, especially for a nomadic people without stone buildings to provide coolness and shade. Common sense, really.

Answer 10

Because their religion has its roots in a nomadic lifestyle.
Religion is a way of teaching people how to live.
Remember, the bible also teaches one how to work the land (work at it for 6 years, leave it alone the 7th year) so that the soil can restore itself.
It's good practice, and it's told to people as religion.

As for the pigs: Dirty animals, full of parasites. Dangerous if you don't cook the meat well. Also hard to bring along as nomads, because pigs don't like to walk long distances.
So, better tell the people to stay off the pigs, then.