It is "unclean" to Jews and Muslims, but beloved by the rest of the world. Why?

https://archaeology.org/issues...c90f5d78644b3ac54ae6

I think pigs and humans are capable of passing more disease back and forth compared to many other species. I'd guess that the ancient wisdom recognized that and thus the prohibition.

Additionally, pigs are omnivores and will eat just about anything including rotten meat as buzzards do. People at that time considered that "unclean" and some religions forbade consumption.

Chickens that are allowed to free range will eat just about everything.

I believe most pork is now raised indoors on concrete these days. Hogs raised on pasture are dewormed, etc but there are not many of those in your average supermarket.

Something I though odd was someone I bought apples from said in her 'biblical based diet' rabbits were also considered unclean.

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Originally posted by df06:
Chickens that are allowed to free range will eat just about everything.

They are not vegetarians!

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Chickens that are allowed to free range will eat just about everything.

100%! I’ve seen my wife’s chickens fight over mice (especially babies) and baby sparrows that have fallen from nests. Vicious birds!

Yeah....if Rhode island reds weighed 40 lbs......the world would be a scary place!

Miniature Velociraptors.

I've always been under the opinion that those early "laws" were instated before the invention of refrigeration, + definitely before the semblance of "safe food handling".

I'm thinking that in today's world they would include Tilapia.

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Originally posted by TCLouis:
I'm thinking that in today's world they would include Tilapia.

Only Chinese tillapia....

I have seen cattle eating a dead cow!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
I have seen cattle eating a dead cow!

One of my horses watched me shoot a rabbit in his pasture once. I collected it (for a meal) and he sniffed it while I had it in hand. He took up hunting them in his pasture after that. And squirrels. He would stomp them and then eat them, crunching the bones. He'd also readily take bear and deer carcass remains I put out for my chickens. He loved meat. Loved hanging with me when I built bonfires. He was an 18 hand giant too.

Google Willie Picton, reputably one of Canada's most notorious serial killers and a pig farmer.

Trichinosis.

I find this fascinating. I suspect the early prohibitions were a concern about disease and it just continued, but pigs are the way to feed the world. Thy are prolific and today, disease can be prevented. Very interesting and would like to know more.

Personally, I love bacon. That said, I won't eat bushpig. I've seen too may game cam photos of them scarfing up maggots under a bait and can't put that out of my mind.

Reminds me of the joke about the priest and the rabbi, where the rabbi confesseses to having once tried a ham sandwich and the priest conessees to having had sex once and the rabbi says, you've gotta admit that sex beats a ham sandwtch.