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Why Pork Is A No-No
Someone mentioned something yesterday about pork that got me Google juices flowing, so here goes;
Why Pork is Prohibited in Islam
Interestingly, the Quran does make an exception if a Muslim eats pork, "But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful."
Al-Qur'an, 002.173 (Al-Baqara [The Cow])
The medical reasons for not eating pork seem much more convincing though : pig's bodies contain many toxins, worms and latent diseases (I'll bet all animals do as well however)
Although some of these infestations are harboured in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far more predisposed to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because pigs like to scavenge and will eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta including their own, garbage, and other pigs. Influenza is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is haboured in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and human in the cooler months.
Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of flu. Pig meat contains excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to itching and inflammation; growth hormone which promotes inflammation and growth; sulphur containing mesenchymal mucus which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc.
Sulphur helps cause firm human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage.
Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and obesity, probably due to its high cholestrol and saturated fat content. The pig is the main carrier of the taenie solium worm, which is found in its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has trichinosis from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork.
Many people have no symptoms to warn them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are not noticed during meat inspections.
Hope you're not at your breakfast!!
C
Why Pork is Prohibited in Islam
- The Quran forbids the eating of dead meat, blood, and the flesh of swine;
- Swine are considered unclean as they will eat anything including their own excreta;
- The prescibed method in Islam of slaughtering an animal for consumption is to 'bleed it' by an incision in the jugular vein, leaving all organs intact. This cannot be done with a pig as anatomically it has no neck so Muslims feel if a pig was fit for consumption then God would have given it a neck (if it can't be bled then the blood will congeal in the veins and permeate the flesh with uric acid which is highly poisonous)
Interestingly, the Quran does make an exception if a Muslim eats pork, "But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits,- then is he guiltless. For Allah is Oft-forgiving Most Merciful."
Al-Qur'an, 002.173 (Al-Baqara [The Cow])
The medical reasons for not eating pork seem much more convincing though : pig's bodies contain many toxins, worms and latent diseases (I'll bet all animals do as well however)
Although some of these infestations are harboured in other animals, modern veterinarians say that pigs are far more predisposed to these illnesses than other animals. This could be because pigs like to scavenge and will eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, rotting carcasses, excreta including their own, garbage, and other pigs. Influenza is one of the most famous illnesses which pigs share with humans. This illness is haboured in the lungs of pigs during the summer months and tends to affect pigs and human in the cooler months.
Sausage contains bits of pigs' lungs, so those who eat pork sausage tend to suffer more during epidemics of flu. Pig meat contains excessive quantities of histamine and imidazole compounds, which can lead to itching and inflammation; growth hormone which promotes inflammation and growth; sulphur containing mesenchymal mucus which leads to swelling and deposits of mucus in tendons and cartilage, resulting in arthritis, rheumatism, etc.
Sulphur helps cause firm human tendons and ligaments to be replaced by the pig's soft mesenchymal tissues, and degeneration of human cartilage.
Eating pork can also lead to gallstones and obesity, probably due to its high cholestrol and saturated fat content. The pig is the main carrier of the taenie solium worm, which is found in its flesh. These tapeworms are found in human intestines with greater frequency in nations where pigs are eaten. This type of tapeworm can pass through the intestines and affect many other organs, and is incurable once it reaches beyond a certain stage. One in six people in the US and Canada has trichinosis from eating trichina worms, which are found in pork.
Many people have no symptoms to warn them of this, and when they do, they resemble symptoms of many other illnesses. These worms are not noticed during meat inspections.
Hope you're not at your breakfast!!
C
