Why Is Pork Forbidden? 

It could be a garbage disposal just as much as it could be a meal .... it doesn't say in leviticus not to associate with pigs in any way shape or form . It just says don't eat them . Have they found any skeletons of any gentiles in Jerusalem? Now that would be a topic for argument now, wouldn't it?

The Old Testament talks about all of Israels struggle with following God's commands. Its true that the North was more wayward more often, but the South had its issues too.

The Bible covers all this. In the NT, the parable of the Prodigal Son has him living with pigs, and there's a pig herder mentioned in the story about Legion. The Scriptures overflow with people breaking taboos, everywhere, and at all times, which is the point of the propitiation of Jesus.

I think what archaeologist are forgetting in their digs is that although Megiddo, Hazor, and Jerusalem had a majority Jewish population in the Iron age, the Pig bones and skeletons could have came from traders residing in those cities, or native Canaanites. It is well known that there were Phoenician, Philistine, and Amorite/Aramaean traders in those cities and trade networks going from Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.

Let's not forget, pork products are valuable. People who produced them were likely wealthy. You don't have to eat them to make them. And, all Christian nations conquered by Islam had a thriving trade in pigs. More than likely, bones discovered are from non-Jews or apostate Jews who followed foreign gods.

It's why I think if people abstain from pork, it's out of RESPECT for pigs for their remarkable intelligence and emotional depth, NOT because of disdain for pigs.

@@Wasserkaktus oh yeah, those sows are so empathetic that they chronically suffocate their piglets and have to be crated. How complex

@@coryaw95 Uh, your comment PROVES how emotionally complex they are. The mothers get so incredibly stressed out in the horrid conditions they are often in, they savage their piglets due to intense trauma and stress.

@@Wasserkaktus Except this doesn't only happen on commercial farms. It's endemic to pig rearing in general.

@@coryaw95 And you don't think that maybe all pig farming is extremely stressful for pigs? Do you honestly think such complex animals enjoy that kind of environment?

Love it. 😃

Very RELIGIOUSLY STATED by that wise man !!!!!!

@@WayneSmith-lo8be it was Mohammed, if I remember correctly.

@@rdjb9650 Mohammed, The FATHER of Government-controlled religion.

Hmm, yes, very wise.

Your last sentence drove home a nail for me. I worked for environmental services (our trash handling "pretty" name). Some of the public treated us as tho we were filthy, even tho we were not making trash, just doing our jobs of safely dealing with their garbage. I still get people asking me if I am glad to be away from the garbage. Wtf! We all make trash/garbage every single day and SOMEBODY has to handle it. It's a very necessary job and the public should be more than grateful that someone is willing to touch their waste and safely deal with it to PROTECT the public from all sorts of pathogens.

@@ecouturehandmades5166 Seriously! Trash disposal and sanitation is a backbone of any city or town. I get that the society perceives jobs related to trash as low requirement jobs, but many jobs are like that and few are as essential.

So social status outweighs the need for a good protein source?

@@user-cc1ej9yr5p We are highly social species, so as long as this protein source was not essential to survival, I don't see why it couldn't be foregone in the name of social status. After all it translates to stuff like availability of mates and signaled group belonging. Pretty vital stuff :)

It's like complaining the garbage man looks too much ..like a garbage man.

They are as intelligent as dogs or a 3 yr old human, seems wrong to eat a self aware creature

@@Syncrotron9001 Yeah... I still eat them, and other animals, but I try to keep it as low as posible.

​@@Syncrotron9001 3 year old kids are self-aware and can talk, adult pigs don't even recognize themselves in a mirror, but regardless this is a pointless argument. Also, eating dogs is totally fine too, just not socially accepted in our culture due to the role they play in our society.

@@DMSBrian24 BEATNGU

@@DMSBrian24 Ditto.

And probably there was a climate change from more humid to dry co ditions around that time.

Ah, thats why there was that handy herd of pigs on the Gadarene shores of the Sea of Galilee for Jesus to cast demons into. Also, Israel is wetter and much more fertile than Judah. Judah was envious of its fertility.

@@magdlynstrouble2036 what are you talking about? Lol 😂

Good idea, but does not explain how the amount of pig bones in the middens swerves down so severely in a rather short time - that did not see too much climate change reducing water availbility.

I think this is the main reason. In societies where there's a lot of water, pork is the most valued meat.

whats wrong with scallops? catfish yeah i understand. crab legs why? Oysters can be very disgusting too

@@rednarok all shell fish is unclean, because ita a fish without scales. Same as cat fish.

All those are bottomfeeders

@@tiffanydennis4227 that has nothing to do w it. Jews don't bother with pigs, as there is no secondary product in their animal husbandry. It wasn't profitable. Don't overthink it, its ALWAYS about the money. Ever as far back as we can peer into history.

They are all disgusting honestly.

thank you for not eating my pork Jules..

Absolute chad comment

They are easier to breed tho. A Carrot or potato farmland gives you 2-4 carrots/potatoes. A Wheat-field gives 1-2 Wheat.

I remember playing a game where pigs are use for leather and sausages.

@@Ch-ew9tm most of my play I never found potato or carrot until I am pretty much established by wheat farm and cow. I just live on fish and apple starting

@ming Knights and Merchants? Used to love that game. One of my favorites

What a very interesting point you raise.

Pigs don't produce milk or wool. So for the water resource they use they are not a good choice as live stock

All you points just prove people want to be where they want regardless of environmental considerations. Smart people put things where they prosper best, not where it's convenient

Agree with this. I always figured it strictly was inability to refrigerate resulting in illness of those who ate pork, but certainly as in vid - cost of pig care versus yield is a major factor. Videographer did a great job bringing up several factors.

Raising pig is not as difficult as you make it seem. I raised two from piglets to full adults and they had no problem drinking water from a aqua table. Very smart animals that one can raise right and still be useful.

I like this. God comes off as sassy and petty. I love it.

As it should be taken. Dietry guidelines

@@niemand9362 Also, see Old Testament.

Re:comment: 👆Don’t be a mocker about what God’s letting you know about the clean vs. unclean foods. This is a rather serious topic. Anyone who becomes a mocker will sadly have to suffer the consequences or quickly smarten up from their own ignorance! He strongly wants you to be truly healthy in as many areas as possible so please be careful with your words & foods you “think” are just fine for eating. Jesus Christ wouldn’t be warning us if there wasn’t a really valid reason for it. Think about that. 🤔

@@Barbara-jq2se Why should we take the knowledge of an ancient man and use it for the basis of modern health guidelines and food safety? I’ve almost studied nothing about pigs but I probably know 4x more than Jesus ever knew about swine or food safety. Please cite a source that isn’t a law book/ fanfiction/ fairytale/ fantasy novel.

Bacon is always justified.

why not doggo

Haha

Ah, but smoked beef, smoked, chicken and duck.

@@Smith-cd3yhonly idiots with iphones know anything ?

you could say the same ting about my wife's cooking and she doesn't eat pork!

do u read quran mitch

Same can be happend if you eat other red meats lol

@@lufhopespeacefully2037 Why are you going through the comments asking people if they read the Quran? What's the follow-up question you want to ask?

he wants to deceive people into his 7th century Pagan CULT Islam.! Ignorant human souls who DO NOT KNOW THEIR MESSIAH "YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST THE LORD."🤔🤗🤣🕎♎

Have you truly? wasn't it obvious that religion is merely a fairy tale cause barbarians are not smart enough to form a society without punishment of hellfire?

They have ALOT of parasites. Tap worm comes from pigs. They carry diseases.

The pork is not prohibited, is just that some people can think in depth before they take an action for eating a dirty animal.

@@Potencyfunctionlike, every animal? Go vegan, then.

Best use of it ever is in that screenshot of Gary Plauche in Baton Rouge.

do u read quran nic

Ok ni

@@Smith-cd3yh Pigs aren't and the ancient Israelites didn't know anything. There were even hooved carnivores at one time on the Earth.

Shalom, Salam, Peace. Quran [Last Testament] “He has forbidden you only dead animals, and blood, and the swine, and that which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for other than God.” (Quran 2:173) Torah [Old Testament] Also In The Gospel [New Testament] (Lev. 11:7-8) as . The approved animals "chew the cud," which is another way of saying they are ruminants that eat grass. Pigs "cheweth not the cud" . They eat calorie-

Let's get this comment to the top!

The practice of circumcision came from Egypt, the Jewish culture/ethnicity merged from one of Egypt’s provinces, when the Abrahamic beliefs (of Judaism and Christianity) spread throughout the Rome Empire and collapsed, a certain merchant a couple of centuries later (after the Western Roman collapsed) created a cult following with a new religion, borrowing a lot of aspects from the Abrahamic belief to instill upon he’s new mythology.

It is probably based off of long-term observations by people that shared a group bathroom & baths...Consequences might be slow, but consequences that are consistent, they speak volumes. Lack of "science" doesn't mean the consequential observations were wrong.

Bump! I am really interested in this as well.

@@memezoffuckery3207 Doesn't the story of Abraham and Moses sort of hint at this notion? The Torah portrays it as being received directly as a covenant from God. Not that different from the Egyptian belief, it would be the sign of being a "chosen people" in the Egyptians mind, perhaps? It would be a bit like how Vietnamese embraced Chinese customs, despite being distinct peoples.

I like that.

@@paddyotterness All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

It doesn't matter which way the mimic octopus looks at you, you won't see it coming anyway.

Says a lot about people.

He forgot that vegans exist

@@Laittth I have never seen a cave painting of a salad.

chicken is my favourite vegetable

@@dougkennedy4906 Golden reply-you win my comment of the day award.

@@dougkennedy4906 you nearly killed me with this reply i am still laughing thanks

Those poor things.🤦

so like pets? thats pretty cool

@@festina_lente7655 The pigs I have seen to be kept as pets are very happy and jolly. Believe me, when a pig is miffed, he/she will let you know, and they are very strong!!

I totally can understand that. Among North American Indians bear was considered to have an uncanny resemblance to human beings when butchered and thus a large number of rituals sprung up around its hunting to delineate it as something distinct.

@@mysticonthehill Humans,pigs and bears are all omnivores. Coincidence? Maybe.

So what you're saying is that roasted humans smell yummy?

@@chickenlover657 Yup. I suspect we taste good too.

My great uncle had a similar experience, as he served in the pacific theater as well. He didn’t allow bacon or ham in his home because it smelled exactly like piles of bodies being burned

Well, if you read the Torah, pigs weren't singled out as particularly bad. They were just forbidden in the exact same way as camels, rabbits, and shellfish. Seeing pigs as particularly bad is a later development, but their prohibition is not, judging by the text.

@@Menzobarrenza “On the basis of a variety of arguments, modern scholars generally see the completed Torah as a product of the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (probably 450-350 BCE),[9][10] although some would place its composition in the Hellenistic period (333-164 BCE).[13]” Wikipedia The text is very late compared to the thousands of years BCE the video covers.

@@pansepot1490 Awesome of you to provide a source. Thanks. Very important distinction, though: "The completed Torah" is a VERY specific compilation of all 5 books of the Torah. It really has no bearing on wether or not the forbiddance of the assorted animals was simultaneous or not. Each of the 5 individual books of the Torah is obviously going to be older than a compilation of all 5 of them. Even more so for the individual narratives therein.

@@Menzobarrenza Now I wonder why they banned camels and rabbits. My first thought is maybe Jewish people observe people dying of protein shock, but as this video points out, you cannot use modern medical facts to describe the historical taboo.

@@heeseunglee6605 I can't speak for any anthropological reasons, but the theological motivation is very simple. In the narrative, YHWH explicitly states that He intends to make the Jews noticeably distinct from all other peoples ("holy" literally means "set apart"), in order for the Jews to be able to serve as reminder of YHWH to the other nations. Ergo, it really is as simple as the Jews just being made intentionally different to everybody else. There is nothing special about the animals themselves. At least, this is what it looks like if you just read the text itself.

Let your pig free in the wild. And see her after a month.

its like a rottweiler when raised by a family acts like a labrador. but thats not their natural aura.

@@MyHusbands Nothing extraordinary will happen, they'll just burrow in the ground to search for roots and grub.

@@MyHusbands you go out into the wild for a few days (no modern equipment) and see what happens

Pigs are unclean because of what they eat. And that includes about everything. Ant that explains why they are hotbeds for trichinosis infection. I got an antipathy to pork while a teen ager and reading the 1942 Yearbook of Agriculture which is on animal disease. That book cured me from pork. Cloven hooved cud chewing animals also can get sick, but they generally look very sick and die. And they do NOT naturally get trichinosis. Pigs don't live the same way. There is no comparison.

Amazing. Because it’s the best

Well said, I think oysters underwent a similar journey. :)

@@finolacat8355 Yea, poor man's clam.

and lobsters arent even all that great...

Lobster is another food prohibited for kosher.

Brightened your day, huh? (*chuckles*)

Literally😂

Did your phone light get brighter? 😂

Debunked. It's the need of Jevvs and MusIims to hate on outsiders.

lol, yes because avian bird flu , hand mouth disease, bovine tape worm, fish tapeworm , rat lungs, and mad cow disease come from pigs 😂😂😂

Are you a coping Jevv or a coping musIim?

Get off him. He's mine!!!

And he's cute too 😍😍😉

I raised a pig for the county fair. They don't need water and mud at all to prosper. They enjoy it, but it's not necessary. Also, they are smarter than dogs.

@@FelonyVideos Really 😃??

@@MariaLopez-hc2nm Yes, really. 👍

It's because they're bottom feeder they eat anything

@@Know26874 basically the mollusk of the overworld...

Thats a good life you have. Live long and prosper. 😊

Very practical solutions

Pigs produce milk like all mammals, but they do not chew cud. As for disease, My parents told me that I must eat only pork that has been very thoroughly cooked because they carry trichinosis and humans can contract that (and other diseases) from undercooked pork.

Raw pork meat used to be marinated in vinegar to remove parasites.

It was poor phrasing, but the difference is that pigs can't be easily milked by humans. Suction is required in order to get their milk out, unlike goats and cows and many other species. In order to milk a pig back then, you'd basically have to suck it out.

@@AnnikaLidne Usefull information, thanks ..

@@harrietharlow9929 Those diseases are a problem of factory farming.

Interesting. And one thing I don’t see mentioned that I’ve heard as a theory, and that is that pig meat is closest to human meat and perhaps the rare cases that could know that, they want to discourage cannibalism.

@@celesterosales8976 I'd like to hear more about that. Can some biologists time in whether it's true about the similarities between human and pig meat.

@@markgraham2312 I was watching one of those horrible crime shows where the criminal tried to burn the victims in the fireplace and a police officer who lived nearby said he thought he smelled a pig being roasted. There have been cannibal tribes and when you think how many die of starvation since the beginning of time, it may have been to discourage that. I certainly don’t know thank goodness 😅

@@celesterosales8976 Thank you.

I wonder if Islam had influence on this?

@@insaneweasel1 it’s entirely possible, especially with the effect Islam has on South Asia

The dharmashāstras make a distinction between wild and domesticated pigs. Varāhas i.e. wild pigs are considered relatively clean and can also be hunted and eaten (depending on one's varna) while Vidvarāhas i.e. village-pigs are deemed unclean. Wild pigs are still hunted and eaten in parts of India by some otherwise mainstream traditional Hindus. Furthermore, in Hinduism, reverence, association with cleanliness and holiness don't always go together. For example, Vishnu also takes form of a fish and a lion (lion-man), but both their flesh is considered unclean in the shāstras. While dogs are considered ritually unclean, they are still revered as vehicle of Bhairava, but eating their flesh is considered to be among the lowliest of acts.

@@kshatrapavan Yes you are correct. But pigs are considered forbidden to eat by general Hindu population and boars aren't available either. So Hindus more or less completely avoid pig/pig like animal meat.

@@caraxes_noodleboi Yes. Abolition of Kshatriya princely states, deforestation and urbanization has made hunting a thing of the past. This has burred the distinction between Varāha (wild-boar) and Vidvarāha (village-pig) making Hindus avoidant of pork in general.

Very true maddog, if you have a piece of rough land covered in thorn bushes and stinging nettles, just put you pigs on it and they will eat all the plants and till the soil so it looks like a ploughed field, great if you want to plant crops there.

@@johnbrereton5229 pigs would be detrimental to the farming which is prized in biblical times, such as olives, grapes, and wheat, and oats.

Until it start messing with the farm. But yeah, its good for tilling the ground....and the feces would act as fertilizer as well.

@@eleethtahgra7182 Yes indeed, you would certainly need to put a fence of some sort around them, or they would wreak havoc across the farm 🐷

@@janacagle2141 Olives, grapes, wheats and oats are still prized today, but as long as the pigs are restricted to a part of the land you want cleared and cultivated, they would do an excellent job. Once their work is done, you can move them elsewhere and plant any of the crops you mentioned or more.

Awsome story 😄 The vikings were very smart people, lol.

@@owlthepirate5997 They actually seem to have been a very straightforward no-nonsense type of people who valued common sense.

Ugh, I hate that kind of ignorant religious "humor." The whole point was, "Yahweh" said pig was unclean and NOT fit for sacrifice or consumption. The priests ate the sacrifices. Pig meat was considered low class food, and the priests were the top echelon of society.

Pigs don't sweat. They keep every toxin they ever consume in their flesh. Parasites, and vaccines. They can eat a human and fully digest the corpse except for the teeth. Pigs can till the ground and clean up garbage, plant trimmings, and pigskin can be used for some things. I haven't been able to find any examples of Jesus himself ever putting any animal flesh into his own mouth. Not even fish. He may feed others, but it seems like he himself only ate water, wine, fruit, figs, olives, bread, oil. Maybe milk & honey. Bread back then had seeds and nuts, fruits in it and was more like a meal.

@@magdlynstrouble2036 Any religious humor is fine in my book as the only ignorance is believing in sky fairies.

To be fair,they're all cultic practices.

do u read quran

@lufhopes peacefully Do they need to?

@@lufhopespeacefully2037 I’m going to read the Quran one of these days. Why ask everyone though

@@hiwhowhatareyoudoinghereme1974 ,because god had commanded us to transport islam`s message to nonmuslims as the last message from go to mankind

Haha. He eat always boar, not pig.

@@mikloscsuvar6097 As far as Leviticus is concerned, boars count as pigs.

There is really a chapter of "Asterix" where he and Obelix travel to Judaea, and Obelix argues about pork (boar in this case) with a Jew.

Makes me wanna reread the whole series!

@@alessandrodelogu7931 Asterix and the Black Gold! Getafix sends them to the Middle East to get 'rock oil' for the magic potion!

The approved animals "chew the cud," which is another way of saying they are ruminants that eat grass. Pigs "cheweth not the cud" because they possess simple guts, unable to digest cellulose. They eat calorie-dense foods, not only nuts and grains but also less salubrious items such as carrion, human corpses and feces.

Theres also the "royal people" vs "common people" dynamic found in the Tzitzit and many other mitzvot.

Yeah, it might have been an effort to maintain the values especially found in nomadic cultures, like independence, out-of-the-box thinking, relying on your friends and family rather than on a rigid social system etc. Reminding Israelites over and over that their god is not a god of accumulating stationary wealth helped them keep their smarts and flexibility. I liked the short video "Bombino - story of Nomad" where a Touareg proudly presents these nomadic values. Seemed to me it had a sort of Torah/Old Testament vibe to it 😃

The Urban vs Rural fight is also a theme in the Golgamesh/Enkidu fight in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Your comment is a breath of fresh air. thank you!

Israelites worshipped idols because they saw no difference in results , because there is no difference. It is all mythology.

@@noahway13 There are no atheists in foxholes

@@Maples01 You know how many men died in foxhole praying to a god? Praying to your GOD? (millions) Praying people died in same numbers as non believers.. What you think is a sound argument is quite ignorant

@@noahway13 people who live just lives according to god tend to have better results than their amoral counterparts

I once heard that Japan’s constant history of _necessitating_ cooperation due to natural disasters is part of the reason why it’s so harshly-conformist. Considering how brutal the kingdoms of yore could be to each other, that could explain why the cultures of that time were also xenophobic/conformist. 🤔

It's the opposite of your example. Instead of "they hate these people for doing something slightly different", it was "doing something slightly different BECAUSE they hate these people". The hate probably began by competing over the limited resources in the area. Tough conditions create bad neighbors.

Eh, more a people thing than a religion thing. It's just that historically, most people were religious. I refer you to the antipathy among people identifying with different modern political parties. Not religion based. Just human.

Oh, the narcissism of small differences, as Sigmund Freud called it

That's the story I was told.

In support of this I would point out that rabbits are also prohibited under Jewish law, they are raised in confined spaces like pigs which would make them well suited to being raised in cities also.

Just to clarify, they weren't Jews at that point - they were still Canaanites. Then the southern Hill Canaanites in Palestine developed the Hebrew/Israelite identity which then further split into Jews and Samaritans. (There are still under a 1000 Samaritans left in Nablus and the vicinity today) And to clarify even further, the original Canaanites, or the later Hebrew/Israelite populations weren't solely pastoralists, they were also farmers.

@Geeljire Thanks for the info!

my school teacher said that they also forbid to make statues of their god because they would be too heavy to carry for nomads. semi-related here bit I hope it fots to the point in the original post.

Great story😒

only cause people have invaded and destroyed their spaces

@@modestrocker1 you mean rightfully conquered

@@modestrocker1 they should contact the united nations

@@shinobi-no-bueno I hate the antichrist

That not why they have it. It is a predator thing.

This.

Why they do it. Ever wonder why the Roman Empire adopted christainity in the first place? It was far easier to force people to adhere to the teachings of a god they could only imagine than keeping people from climbing Mount Olympus.

@@timq6224 well if you look at all the roman neighbors, they all lost their pagan religion or reformed it, this suggests that polytheism is (like animism) a stage in religions that civilizations need to overcome in some form. The persians created the dualistic system out of their pantheon, the indians created henotheism, the israelites created monotheism

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@@irgendwer3610 Now, that is a bold assumption. The word "to overcome" suggests that monotheism is, in some way, superior to polytheism, when it is evident that this is simply an idea that had spread through Europe and parts of South-Western Asia by happenstance, comparable to language families-and I do want to point out that the Persian's dualism and the Indian's henotheism are still forms of polytheism, and Buddhism, by far one of the largest religions in the world, has no god at all. Much rather, the reason the Roman Empire adopted Christianity was quite simply the fact that Constantine the Great converted to Christianity himself due to a set of mostly personal circumstances, and did a significantly better job at convincing the Roman public-many of which already were Christians-to accept the religion than someone like Elagabalus did. Do note that the Western Roman Empire fell not 200 years later. Looking in the direction of East Asia and Africa also provides some clues that this is, indeed, not the case. China has been largely Buddhist and Taoist for much of its history, save for the Qing dynasty, with the former having, as previously mentioned, no god at all, and the latter being quite clearly polytheistic; and Japan has combined ideas of Buddhism and Shinto until the 19th century, with the latter having, by far, the largest number of deities in any recorded religion. And while yes, Shinto is much less popular than Buddhism there nowadays, this is a rather recent development that came with globalization, education and scientific advancement, with Buddhism being a lot easier to believe in as an educated individual due to making comparatively few attempts at explaining the natural world with metaphysics.

I think it's speculated that their name relates to Peleset, which were one of the Sea Peoples mentioned in Egyptian descriptions of those invaders.

Apparently they were greeks in Palestine even before the bronze age collapse : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pRHdqOR72Yc.html

do u read quran king

@@luluflu1140 Palestine didn't exist back then.

It also wasn't called "Philistia", but rather Pleshet, Pilistu, Palastu etc. (probably related to "pelasgós"), and the greek name "Palaistínē" came from those older names.

Adding to the above, it's important to note that historical India was ruled by Muslims during several important periods, and that the early modern period of Mughal rule was especially influential in Indian cuisine as we now know it. Pork prohibitions among the Muslim ruling elite almost certainly contributed to its rarity in modern Indian food. Even moreso in the case of restaurant food, which is more directly linked to historical courtly food.

@Illuminatist he's supporting your point, dude.

@Bored The Vast majority of India was effectively under Muslim rule for over a millenia which leads to that lol, In fact the pork eating areas are the areas where the Muslism didn't really conquer (7 sisters regions and South India like the Coorgs, Southwestern Hindu Malayalis and Southeastern Hindu Tamils). Also Pork can be said to be a taboo in Hinduism since eating any meat was considered taboo and Brahmins had to be vegetarians or face being outcast and you can't enter temples if you've consumed meat that day or if you haven't ritually cleaned yourself after doing so.

@Bored The dharmashāstras make a distinction between wild and domesticated pigs. Varāhas i.e. wild pigs are considered relatively clean and can also be hunted and eaten (depending on one's varna), while Vidvarāhas i.e. village pigs are deemed unclean. Wild pigs are still hunted and eaten in parts of India by some otherwise mainstream traditional Hindus. Now since hunting has become uncommon even the distinction has faded, and so even otherwise meat eating Hindus would hesitate eating wild pigs.

@@kshatrapavan Do you think the Mughal rule over india did indeed cause pork to be absent from modern indian dishes?

Pigs will eat grass-maybe not as first choices for nutrition-I personally have fed grass to pigs-but pigs eat everything. In a pig enclosure-there is not a blade of grass left and often the tree bark is also missing up as high as they can reach if large trees are in there before the pigs. All small trees get consumed, all weeds eaten. The place will be bare dirt.

@@beastshawnee Well, pigs can’t survive only on grass - they need some grain in their diet, as do chickens - which is why you never see “grass-fed pork” or “grass-fed chicken” on any packaging. You only see grass-fed beef, lamb, and goat, because these animals eat only grass.” Pigs will survive on grasses but they will not do well. This diet will not sustain them for very long and they will not grow and reproduce well, if at all.

@@beastshawnee We raise animals for food production, we expect them to grow and reproduce. If they dont so whats the point of raising them.

Pigs are a grazing animal and will do well on pasture they do benefit from grain or acorns nuts roots they love to eat Johnson grass roots

There is an old saying, "root hog or die". In many regions, pigs were meant to forage for their own food. Many times people would put them on an island in a river or off the coast, and come back in a year to harvest them. In Spain a swine herder would drive his swine herd through the woods to feed on the nuts that fall from the trees and other edible roots.

lol

Fascinating

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@@scottgrohs5940 Yeah, but it has become rare here (Denmark). Unfortunately.

obvious! who would eat anything slimy and smelly that looks like a nasal discharge ... :-) yes i'd like to know about some of those other food rules too.

Its because Abu hanifa lived in Afghanistan and shellfish werent in afghanistan so

That could be a high land - low land(near sea) thing similar to the pig upper kingdom vs lower kingdom.

@@typograf62 Føtex has it 🙃

Wait really! Gotta look this up

I read that the Kelts considered dogs and pigs closely related, and Cuchulain was forbidden to eat dog (and died after breaking that taboo) - I wonder if there's a correlation.

@@strawpiglet A connection here seems possible. The Scots did come from Ireland, so perhaps the taboo was native to Ireland and was introduced to what became Scotland.

In Chinese, there is an idiom (豬朋狗友) which literally translates to pig-dog friends. It means bad friends who influences you in a negative way. Although Chinese people consume a lot of pork and dog in the past and the present, and clearly never had any taboos towards pig and dogs, their views towards both of them are a mixed one. Pigs and dogs are still viewed somewhat negatively in Chinese culture. There's also "schwinehund" in German, which translates to "swine-hound", and it's often used as an insult. So yeah there may be some connections.

@@miss42310 Sorry for the delay, but yes, that happened in 1759. It was specifically the 2nd Battalion of the 42nd regiment that did this, while they were marching through the Mohawk River Valley. It wasn't the only example either: the newly-raised 77th and 78th regiments, while still in Scotland having been freshly raised in 1757, refused to eat the pork rations given to them. As a result, the bacon issued was just left to rot.

The answer is confinement, your point makes no sense

And as we all know, battlefields don't exist everywhere else in the world. Only the Levant have battlefields. What a brilliant discovery you've made there.

@@dajjukunrama5695 If a country is being ravaged by war, confinement of the pigs is not easy to enforce.

@@mad_max21 Other countries, other geographies. And maybe the other cultures did not care so much.

yes in the new testament. Timothy also says that in the latter times people will depart from faith, speaking lies in hypocrisy, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats (this is part of the reason I believe when Jesus died on the cross it was the coming of Jesus that people now are foolishly trying to bring forward, or waiting for which wont as prophecy was fufilled and the second covenant was formed). Genesis also shows god saying every moving thing is meat to us - after the flood.

Again, um, how is it that you know that pork tastes like human flesh. Just wondering.

@@LakhnBer I read it in a books somewhere. Good ol' "long pig" tastes a treat! (I'm Veggie, IRL, but manflesh is big among Orc too, I hear)

@@LakhnBer Pig's molecular muscle structure is closer to human's than any other animal. Thus we can use pig heart valves in human hearts.

@@LakhnBer there is a famous Japanese cannibal, Issei Sagawa, who killed a girl and over the course of a few days ate pieces of her. Later when he confessed, he said that human flesh tastes like pork.

Pig was prohibited for its holiness not for its filth

I have often thought that the compatibility factor was perhaps the MAIN reason for God's prohibition of eating their flesh. The saying "You are what you eat" comes to mind. When I lived in Iowa ("the pork capital of the world"), I often remarked that people -- who tended to be morbidly obese and who ate a lot of port -- took on the physical characteristics of pigs. They look like pigs standing upright. Even their eyes have a "piggy" shape and their cheeks and noses as well as their hips and thighs have the same configuration as the pig. They look like HYBRIDS of humanoid and pig.

@@earthangel2522 that sounds so scary 💀

actually if you look at all the animals on the scriptural "not fit for human consumption list, they are all scavengers, or bottom feeders, or clean up the environment of poisons, for example clams. The Birds are the predators primarily that eat rodents, snakes , or in the case of vultures, roadkill. So the saying, garbage in, garage out... if you eat an animal designed to eat garbage, you are eating garbage second hand... But for pork, it is parasites that's the problem primarily,

@@curtismelton_4_8_15 Same as chicken if you die in front of one it will eat you. If you keep farm fowl make sure you keep them away from dogs as they will eat there poop.

Ancient peoples are not aware of parasites so it couldn't be any sort of sanitary reasons for prohibition on pork. They have no understanding or even conception that pig organs can be used in humans. Just religious ignorance.

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Your mom's sweet or the pig? I thought pigs were salty. This is what happens when you don't use commas!

@@josephcelestine3656 Haha true. She meant her mom, 'coz Pablo is a boy

Your Mom sounds fabulous thanks for sharing made me grin

Bless your other. Glad to see she loves animals!

Reminded me off some pig raisers in my town. Pigs can really be free food.

Reminds me of the video series ''war time farm'', they do the same thing there.

in northern vermont this is a way of having a stake in a pig. you provide slop and once its slaughtered you get a cut of the meat. barter economies are very important in rural areas of the united states.

We still do this in the Netherlands, especially swill from restaurants etc

In college, my fraternity had a food waste bucket and once a week a guy in a truck labeled "The Big Pig" took it away.

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I think I heard something similar. Thanks for mentioning it and explaining it here!

Pigs are like catfish, are created to be bottom feeders. Have you seen a gorilla eating trash? How about a 🦒 giraffe eating trash? They eat heavenly foods that grow high in the trees and they don't carry disease, as well as, live longer life spans than Porky the pig.

@@ladwaloncrownover8986 I don't think they were created to be bottom feeders - they simply eat garbage because when we domesticated them that is what we gave them. It would probably be the same with many animals.

@@LillyTheLonelySock you may be right. I should do more research before making such bold statements. I apologize and will look deeper into the matter.

@@LillyTheLonelySock agreed...biars were here before humans gave them trash to eat.

There are many dangerous types of food (mushrooms, certain kinds of fish, grass etc) around the mediterranean but nobody bothered to make them a religious taboo. Also there are places around Israel with very similar climate where people eat pork since forever. For example Greece, Cyprus, Syria and all the Asia Minor.

My mom was from Italy. They salted pork and ate a lot of pork. They were never sick from that. They were poor so pork a d fish was their meat. They used olive oil but lard was way cheaper.

Pork I understand, but shell fish for a culture on the Mediterranean has me a bit flummoxed.

@@JWPanimation I believe the shell fish was on a coin perhaps associated with a god. It is possible that was also poor people food so associated with poverty. Shrimp eat garbage. So the poor slaves eat the worst foods too.

They said pork taste almost like human flesh. That's what a cannibals says. And when i look at cut of pork belly, it looks very close to human skin. But don't let me stop you from what you want to eat.

How do you figure it's an interpolation?

I had the opposite experience.

🤮 insects of the sea and swine.

Bacon wrapped shrimp.... oh yeah

Why do you care what the Bible says? Ever think about that?

The cannibalism connection may be much more direct than that. Human flesh is said to be close to pork. See "long pig".

And beer. Pigs eat the thrash of brewing quite efficiant. In Europe, countries with a lot of porc, are beer countries.

@@ducx23 the waste products of beer brewing contain little alcohol and are actually quite nutritious - brewer's yeast is an excellent source of B vitamins. I don't think that beer has a lot to do with it because before Islam most of the ancient near east drank volumes of beer and yet we saw the beginnings of a pork taboo before Islam. Also, Jewish people drink alcohol but don't eat pork.

@@alestane2 absolutely has nothing to do with cannibalism.

It takes 5 times the amount water for 1 pound of pork compared to 1 pound of chicken. Raising pigs in the desert is suicide. It it that simple.

It's happening again. They want to stop us eating all meat, but especially beef, now.

What've you got against recycling?

You mean like Sheep Cows Goats all of which will eat meat if easily and readily available ... almost no animal is strictly vegetarian ....

@john heiskell It does.

@@michaelbooth2890 ay yo😳

But the ancients mostly ate pork, so your argument doesn't stand. The pork taboo is a Middle Eastern thing, everywhere else in the world pigs have been raised and eaten for millenia. The only societies that have a pork taboo nowadays are societies that have been islamized at some point in the past. Besides, any animal (sheep, cow, chicken...) will feed on animal flesh (including human) if readily available. Pigs are no exceptions in that matter.