Tricinosis was commonly found in pork before modern food prep. It’s likely why it was a forbidden meat in many middle eastern cultures. Look at the list of animals that spread the disease — it’s not like ancient Jews would be eating walrus.
Food preparation wasn’t as well understood then as it is today and pork carried with it a risk that poultry, beef and others didn’t hence the rules against eating it.
Exactly this. If you think about it, regardless of if the religious reason was real or not, people did not know how to handle food safely, and pork is one of the worst when it comes to bacteria growth. My SO is a food scientist and they said it well, people probably just got sick from pork a lot more than other meats. So obviously god was saying not to eat it.
3000ish years later we have things like thermometers and know what bacteria are and how they grow. So I don’t know if the rules came down today if it would say “don’t eat pork” or if it’d be “verify your pork has been handled safely and cooked thoroughly”
Pigs live in filth, back before modern food handling standards people would get sick a lot. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_restrictions_on_the_consumption_of_pork#:~:text=The pig is considered an,Islam%2C and parts of Christianity.
Onions live in filth. Potatoes live in filth. All fruits and vegetables live in filth, often fertilized with manure.
So what the fuck does filth have anything to do with anything?
Onions and potatoes don’t give you trichinosis.
Okay. Undercooked meat may yield bad parasitic worms. So what, what makes pork any different than any other meat in that regard?
Always cook meat thoroughly and that shouldn’t be a problem. Pork ain’t any different.
Tricinosis was commonly found in pork before modern food prep. It’s likely why it was a forbidden meat in many middle eastern cultures. Look at the list of animals that spread the disease — it’s not like ancient Jews would be eating walrus.
https://www.cdc.gov/trichinellosis/about/index.html
A lot of these ancient traditions came about because someone got sick from eating or doing something.
Food preparation wasn’t as well understood then as it is today and pork carried with it a risk that poultry, beef and others didn’t hence the rules against eating it.
Apparently they still don’t understand food preparation, otherwise these fast food joints wouldn’t have had to pull onions off their foods.
Why you think I mentioned onions first? The cycle continues…
Exactly this. If you think about it, regardless of if the religious reason was real or not, people did not know how to handle food safely, and pork is one of the worst when it comes to bacteria growth. My SO is a food scientist and they said it well, people probably just got sick from pork a lot more than other meats. So obviously god was saying not to eat it.
3000ish years later we have things like thermometers and know what bacteria are and how they grow. So I don’t know if the rules came down today if it would say “don’t eat pork” or if it’d be “verify your pork has been handled safely and cooked thoroughly”