God gave health rules because He created the human body and knows what is best. In Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, God very clearly points out the clean and unclean animals and the pig is among the unclean animals – so no pork and ham. God made the hog for the same purpose that He made the buzzard–as a scavenger to clean up garbage.
Facts About Swine (Pork and Ham)
Here are some facts why eating pork is unhealthy according to medical doctors (1), the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (2), Consumer Reports (3) and others:
1) The swine carries many diseases which can be easily passed to humans.
2) Pigs will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.
3) Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.
4) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.
5) Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.
6) The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.
7) When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.
8) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.
9) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine’s one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.
The Bible states that eating pork or “swine’s flesh,” is an “abomination” (Isaiah 66:15-17).
Some Good Reading
(1) https://draxe.com/why-you-should-avoid-pork/
(2) https://www.cdc.gov/flu/swineflu/variant/preventspreadfactsheet.htm
(3) https://www.consumerreports.org/media-room/press-releases/2012/11/my-entry-4/
In His service,
BibleAsk Team
