On the uncleanliness of pigs.
In Old Testament times, the Jews regarded pigs as 'unclean', and refused to eat them. Why should this have been? My theory is that a pig is an animal of similar size to a human being, and of similar dietary requirements. Consequently, parasites which infest its guts might well find themselves quite at home in ours. Now, in those times, meat was very often cooked and eaten in less than ideal conditions, so that parasites, or their eggs, might be swallowed while still viable, and proceed to set up home. Bad news, but not a problem now.
It's also the case that, because they are so similar in appearance and smell to out own, we tend to find the faeces of pigs much more repellant than those of horses, cattle or sheep. To adapt a trope from Jungian psychology, the pig is our physical Shadow, just as the monkey is our sexual Shadow. We react with revulsion, as is natural; but in neither case should we react with hysteria.
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Some say that pork is forbidden to the Jews because originally it was sacred to them. Similarly horse meat is not eaten in Britain as the horse was sacred ( and possibly still is) . I assume the same prohibition applies to Muslims for the same reason.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 10 | |
Horse is extremely bad for you, and should never be eaten. Some native Americans did eat horse. It's very hard to digest.The reports I read, I can't remember all the reasons.
Look up Lev 11:3 and Deut 14:6 and it will explain more on the food for the Jewish people.
Native Americans in the United States
Indigenous people of the Americas, the inhabitants of North and South America prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus
Indian American, an American with ancestors from India
I copied it out of Wikipedia. Now, I was brought up to say American Indian, I will always think of them as American Indians. The Indians around me take pride in being called Indian, not Native Americans. I agree with you. Just trying hard to be politically correct. It's difficult. If you Google American Indian, it will say, Native American.
I'm just trying to keep up.
the animals a Jew can eat have cloven hooves, and chew their cud.
Lev 11:3, Deut 14:6
Animals forbidden, because they lack one or both qualification. Camels, rock badger, hare, pig.
Also in water, only fish that have scales and fin can be eaten.
It has to be Kosher!
| 1 year ago. Rating: 13 | |
Chickens, duck, geese, are all good.
A camel does chew it's cud, but the hooves are not cloven. I'm surprised at the Arabs. I would have thought they would observe the same kosher laws as the Jews.
I will not get that meal out of my mind for years.Are you in the UK?
I eat pork. In fact I think I have eaten just about everything on the planet along with a lot of things that should not be eaten. I don’t recall of having eaten a penguin or tarantula. Pork…..lots of pork.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 9 | |
Pigs are so intelgent animals
| 1 year ago. Rating: 8 | |
SO, what is the question? Are you buying into the Old Testament as being a valid history book?
| 1 year ago. Rating: 7 | |
Umbriel, do you eat pork at all?
| 1 year ago. Rating: 7 | |
Perhaps, but undercooked pork can get you very sick and perhaps they believed that was because they were un-clean animals. I do not believe they knew about paracitic infections- just that some people experienced grave illness and death.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 6 | |
Daisy, I wrote "Indian" in a newspaper column. Editor changed it to "Native American"
| 1 year ago. Rating: 6 | |
Well from my point of view and personal experience pigs, housed correctly, are very clean animals.
They go to the one area to defecate so keeping their main area clean.
The fact that a lot of farmers chose to and still choose to keep their pigs in unclean enviroments is not the pigs fault.
This cruelty as for as I am concerned probably stemmed fron the biblical "unclean" nonsense.
As for not fully cooked being dangerious so is chicken and what about fish, shell fish even game should be cooked in full.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 6 | |
Pigs are the cleaness animals.They have the same gastro-intestinal tract as the human being - they can also give their hearts. I have already posted about the Jewish Man who had a pig heart transplant. They were considered not fit to eat by Jewish People because as you know when pork is not fresh and eaten it causes great sickness and in those days there was no refrigeration.. Regarding their faeces - I can tell you it smells far far sweeter then human faeces. They are also very intelligent.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 6 | |
I like pork, just finished off a pork stew as a matter of fact. Cloven hoofs don't bother me but, eating certain animals is against my diet. I eat nothing that swims nor sheep nor deer nor etc......
| 1 year ago. Rating: 5 | |
Daisy is correct but I have read many health articles and otherwise stating just what you have written about pigs Umbriel. I don't eat meat... I can't eat anything that blinks. Pigs are as smart as dogs. I look at pigs and I look at my boogely eyed blinking dogs... too creepy to think about.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 5 | |
Think about the people back then. Unhealthy , unclean, average lifespan about 45. Didnt know much about meat safety and cooking. Back then there was superstitious nonsense about alot of things. Some of that nonsense still pervails today in some religions about pork. Thats their problem. There is absolutely nothing wrong with pork meat.
| 1 year ago. Rating: 5 | |
