While eating pork and having a muslim friend of mine comment on how disgusting it is, a thought came to me, WI pork was accepted by muslims and jews?
Prohibitions on eating pork may be a "primitive" counter-measure during pre-bacteria knowledge because of diseases incurring on peoples eating it and getting salmonella, listeria, campylobactor or trichura tichurasis...
You'd probably need early refrigerating and knowledge of handling raw pork properly to effectuate this. The Mideastern climate isn't a help in this respect.
There's a reason to the close to hysteria veterinarian precautions in handling pork.![]()
Yes and no. You could just have different cooking/handling regimens as a religious thing. Also, epidemics of cholera didn't stop people from throwing their shit out the front door until the 19thc.
Genitically Modifed Pigs that chew their cud.
I have heard two different theories on the prohibition of pork. The first one I actually heard from a rabbi, who explained that the wild pig is carnivorous, and therefore the prohibition against eating any beast of prey.
The second theory is about the cult of the Eqyptian god Seth, the god of darkness and chaos, who was normally depicted with the head of an unknown animal, possibly an aardvark, but also sometimes with a pig's head. Pigs were usually sacrificed and eaten during his ceremonies. When the Jews left Eqypt, Seth's name evolved to Satan, and the consumption of pork was associated with his worship.
Yes and no. You could just have different cooking/handling regimens as a religious thing. Also, epidemics of cholera didn't stop people from throwing their shit out the front door until the 19thc.