What makes pork more unhealthy than any other meat product?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinosis
Thank you, Markjo.
healthyeating.sfgate.com/risks-undercooked-chicken-2327.html
Pretty much any undercooked meat is bad. Pork is far from unique in that regard.
Chicken is pretty nasty for you if undercooked. But it doesn't have the double-whammy of eating carrion. Eating dead things was considered to be, and still is, so far as I know, EXTREMELY unhealthy for the human who came along and ate the thing that ate the carrion eater later. Seriously, now. Tell me. You wouldn't eat a vulture, but you do eat a hog? That is nasty-ass, and its comparable.
* Human meat eaters are NOT carnivores, because Real-Carnivores eat LIVING animals.
* REAL Carnivores salivate at the sight of an animal - as their prey. Humans do not.
* REAL Carnivores make the kill themselves with their own fangs and claws. Humans do not.
* Human (fake) 'carnivores' are merely CARRION EATERS, like scavengers or vultures, ...they only eat DEAD meat. In other words, they ingest only DEATH.
I think your yahoo.answers person doesn't know the difference between a predator and a carnivore. We eat meat and we eat veggies... omnivores.
Bye Markjo, hello Yakov.
But eating pork is fine. It is a domesticated animal reared for meat. And its delicious I might add.
The problem that jews and muslims have with pork, is that their religious texts do not keep up with technology. There is no Hebrew bible 2nd edition. They don't bring out a new one each year. 2000 years ago, eating pork in the desert would be a seriously bad idea. Pigs are similar in anthropology to humans. And so parasites that like pigs, tend to like humans too. You eat pork 2000 years ago in the desert and you are going to get worms, lice, bacterial infections etc etc.
And religious texts were a form of early law. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not kill. Still as useful today as they were back then. Don't eat pork .... well things have changed. We have antibiotics and medicate sick animals and crucially, we have refrigeration. Wise old law writers making a book to base a civilisation on aren't able to foresee that in 2000 years pork is gonna be great to eat and perfectly safe.
Christian rules don't have that, because Christians tended to be from Europe where its not as hot and the dangers of pork, not so bad. So European religions never forbade it. But our texts are equally as bad at keeping up with technology. Don't have sex with your immediate family. Of course, you don't want an inbred society. But these days we have contraception. You could have sex with a family member and if you were both up for it, its not going to make any difference. I still find it icky though because of my culture, much like you don't relish a bacon sandwich.
But I wouldn't care if I heard some guy was banging his sister and she loved it any more than you mind other people eating hot dogs. Its just not for me.