If eating pork is a sin according to muslims?

Question

Then why have nothing bad has occurred to the majority of non-muslims that eat pork. If God has created animals for human enjoyment or use, then why was the pig created?

Mike you are talking crap. If this ws true every pork eater would be ill, are they? No. Pork is seen as a healthy meat.

Cap'n that can be applied to any animal. as anything living can carry disease.

Fre a good answer, one misconception you can actually eat scorpions i have seen it done.

srdmn72 all animals have blood in them, and pig are not dirty they do not carry more diseases than human do,

Muslim by choice < prove to me that the pig is dirty as all animals include yourself are carry of diseases. Look at BSE, Blue tongure for cow, Bird flu and salmonella for poultry. if you don't cook it properly, it is no excsuse. Most animal can be eaten it just some of them are not nice tasting/

Answer 1

Consumption of pork causes several diseases

The other non-Muslims and atheists will agree only if convinced through reason, logic and science. Eating of pork can cause no less than seventy different types of diseases. A person can have various helminthes like roundworm, pinworm, hookworm, etc.

One of the most dangerous is Taenia Solium, which is in lay man’s terminology called tapeworm. It harbours in the intestine and is very long. Its ova i.e. eggs, enter the blood stream and can reach almost all the organs of the body. If it enters the brain it can cause memory loss. If it enters the heart it can cause heart attack, if it enters the eye it can cause blindness, if it enters the liver it can cause liver damage. It can damage almost all the organs of the body. Another dangerous helminthes is Trichura Tichurasis. A common misconception about pork is that if it is cooked well, these ova die.


In a research project undertaken in America, it was found that out of twenty-four people suffering from Trichura Tichurasis, twenty two had cooked the pork very well. This indicates that the ova present in the pork do not die under normal cooking temperature.

Pork has fat building material

Pork has very little muscle building material and contains excess of fat. This fat gets deposited in the vessels and can cause hypertension and heart attack. It is not surprising that over 50% of Americans suffer from hypertension.

Pig is one of the filthiest animals on earth

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

Answer 2

alan h, you haven't answered the question why pork consumption is considered as sin. You've just stated that Muslims believe eating pork is a sin and that others don't.

Yes, just because something is created, it doesn't follow that we ought to consume it. For instance, we don't eat poison ivy or scorpions. But we eat beef and chicken, why is pork special?

Pork might be harder to keep clean and perhaps that will justify not eating it back then. However, now that we have more scientific knowledge about bacteria and knowledge about how well pork must be cooked, why can't we consume it now? Are we following the spirit of the law or the letter? Almost all if not all meat, if cooked unproperly, will cause illness. It's a false slipper slope. And why only apply the slippery slope for pork?
We cook pork at the right temperature and with adequate timing now, and most of us do not fall ill. We can also fall ill with poorly cooked chicken as well.


EDIT: Muslim by choice

By animals of prey, I am assuming you mean animals that have been killed by others. You have not established how an animal of prey is the same as pork. A deer being bitten on the throat by a wolf, simply dies. The deer doesn't develop "aggressive hormones" in the meat.

Lots of meats have toxins, pollutants, chemicals, and even steriods. I'd safely bet that a chicken today has more toxins than a swine in Muhammad's day.

The pig is also not the only animal to eat its own feces. Many animals eat the unsanitary. Even intelligent animals such as dogs have been known to consume their feces and their own vomit.

You have claimed that pigs fall in the same category as vulture, gorillas and such but haven't shown why they do. This is a question-begging fallacy. Begging the Question is a fallacy in which the premises include the claim that the conclusion is true or (directly or indirectly) assume that the conclusion is true.

Answer 3

The eating of pork was banned by all three major religions. Yes even christianity. This only changed by a papal decree during the inquisition.
If all christians could eat pork by their religion and jews and muslims couldn`t then it was made easy for the inquisition to identify the christians from the rivals who they would put to death if they wouldn`t convert.

The origional consept of not eating pork is because of the risk to health. In hot countries pork doesn`t keep without a freezer and quickly becomes infected with bacteria. Also pigs were used as dustbins and fed all maner of garbage, including dead bodies of other animals, this too leads to a potential spread of desease.

Answer 4

The law against the eating of pork or any animal who has a "cloven foot" is a very ancient semitic law. It was put in place in order to protect the population from trichamonis, a worm which seems to have an affinity for these animals. All Jewish and Islamic dietary laws have their basis in the health and well being of their members. Mostly, these laws are the same. With the advent of modern technology, we have ways of protecting ourselves from undercooked meat, and the dangers therein. We also have refrigeration. While is is still a good idea to be careful what you eat, we don't have to be as cautious. I don't know which chapter or verse it is in, but there is a reference in the Old Testament to this.

Answer 5

It's ridiculous to say that pork is filthy because it eats it's own feces. Do these people know where plants come from?

Pork may have been bad in the olden days, but then so were alot of things like tomatoes (whom the English believed were poisonous, but they later figured out it was because they were eating it on silver plates). Today's standards of farming have much improved and there is no reason not to ... all of it is relatively safe. One of you said something about a microscope and worms - you didn't even try it did you?

Answer 6

If you live in the desert, where food storage and preparation is not very good, then eating pork is a bad idea. Pigs are the oldest domesticated animal. Parasites and diseases have evolved to bridge that species gap. Shellfish are a bad idea too.


However, if you are trying to persuade a bunch of Italians to join your religion, and they know how to properly cook and store non-kosher foods, then dropping the dietary requirements of your religion is a good idea.

So, Islam kept the Jewish dietary requirements. Paul hacked them out of Christianity.

Answer 7

I have eaten pork from when I was knee high to a grass hopper and it has done nothing in the way of making me ill or giving me worms of any description.
I cut off all the fat and make sure that it is never under cooked..
If muslims said eggs were no good, would you stop eating them?
I have no intention of listening to anything even remotely muslim.

Answer 8

It is not true that nothing bad has happened to people from eating pork. True, today's farming and preparation techniques allow pork to be relatively safe to eat. But you are assuming that the reasoning behind not eating pork is merely a health one.

Muslims are prohibited from a eating a number of animals, not only pigs. We may not eat animals of prey, for example. The prohibition, like that of the pig, is related to the habits of the animal, in addition to other health concerns. An animal of prey has a very aggressive nature. Its aggressive hormones are contained in its meat. It is also high up in the food chain which means more pollutants and toxins exist in its flesh than in other animals.

In the case of the pig, it is a filthy animal which is willing to eat even its own feces. For this reason it is prohibited. As to your last point, I may well ask you then, when was the last time you feasted on hyena, vulture, rat, gorilla, etc.? Most animals are not used for food.

EDIT: To Fre CA- By "animal of prey", I meant an animal that hunts prey, i.e. a predator. To my knowledge, none of the animals deemed halal for consumption are known to eat their own feces or vomit. Dogs are also not allowed for us to eat. I was not implying that the predatory animals were necessarily the same as the pig, but noting there are many animals which humans do not eat. One may as well ask the question as to why any of the non-food animals (some 99.9999% of animal species) were created.

To asker- From a Muslim perspective, I do not need to prove to you or to myself that a pig is a filthy animal. Some people here have given you some ideas on that point to explore, but for a Muslim it is beside the point. We realize that the prohibition is by revelation from God, and that is enough for us. It may take many years for a verse from the Quran to be proven correct, such as the information it contains relating to the sciences that was not completely understood until many centuries later in some cases.

Answer 9

The answer is because, as in every other religion, the "word of God" is of course the words of men. It was common sense in those days not to eat pork, as it had a higher chance of making you ill than other meats.

Times change, of course, but narrow-mindedness prevails, and all the time people belive that "holy" books were written by God, then they are doomed to follow the words written by men who are long dead.

Answer 10

The Koran contains many words of advice that have been corrupted by religious leaders to suit their own ends,

eg dont eat pork because it goes off in hot climates and may give you food poisoning...

becomes Pigs are evil ,filthy animals god says you will go to hell if you eat them...

Muslims do not know the joy of bacon for this reason...