Why do Christians and Catholics do this?

Question

why do Christians and catholics still eat pork even tho in the bible it says

thou shall not eat swine,he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.

Answer 1

Matthew 19:17-78 states:

Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?"

He answered him, "Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."

For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.

Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.

Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.

However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.

Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Some Christians and Catholics take the Bible literally and others use it as an important piece of historical literature that has stories and lessons that may be relevant today.

The non-literalists would read that passage and recognize it to be an instruction to avoid the potential of disease from undercooked pork, at the time it was written.

You can challenge the Bible literalists (those who believe that the Bible represents the exact words of God) if you see them eating pork. Everyone else is entitled to a little slack, becuase the non-literalists recognize that there are some instructions that are not relevant today and there are some contradictions in the book.