7 Reasons Muslims Don't Eat Pork

[Anonymous]

1. It is garbage

Pigs eat things like urine, excrement, dirt etc.

2. It has a lot of toxins

The pork meat consists more toxins than other kind of meats.

3. Pigs don't sweat

And toxins stay in their bodies.

4. Bacterias take to pork faster than they do to other meats

5. It has twice much fat

6. It carries many disease that can be easily passed to humans.

7. The Qur'an forbids it

Please don't be rude while commenting. These are just some reasons that muslims don't eat pork. You don't have to agree them or think like that.

[SarahsSummer]

I'd say 1-6 is why many who don't eat pork cite for their reasons, regardless of religious affiliation. But i didn't know all that was why the Quran forbids it.

[Anonymous]

pork is not healthy

[blondfrog]

number 8 they have weak digestive systems and will eat anything including poop.
Also don't forget Jews don't eat pork either.

[Waffles731]

'7. The Qur'an forbids it'
Isn't that really the only real reason

[myTake Owner]

Yeah it is the major reason but some muslims do other things that is forbidden like drinking alcohol.

[ObscuredBeyond]

Pigs do have some sweat glands. They just aren't very efficient regarding how they sweat, which is why the meat stays in the body. The making clean of what was טָמֵא (Acts 10:15) may have made it morally acceptable to consume pork, but that does not mean that pork should be eaten with zero common sense involved. Same with any meat.

Not sure about the world in general, but that's why the USDA and FDA and other agencies in the US require higher standards for pork than other types of meats. It needs to be trimmed better, to remove the toxic lards. It has to be cooked longer, and to higher temperatures, than most other meats. And it has to meet many other inspection requirements before it is even allowed to ship.

Therefore, pork has to clear several extra hurdles before it's even allowed on the shelf. And it's still not the healthiest meat, so I would advise eating it sparingly.

I prefer lamb, though it's a lot more expensive. Actually did a diagram here a year ago about Deuteronomy and the requirements for cooking lamb the Jews had. I showed what was considered acceptable meat and what was considered toxic lard, for those who didn't understand the verses. Depending on the cuts of meat, the toxic lard is usually not that hard to separate from the good meat. However, when most of the package is toxic lard, it can leave you feeling like the store ripped you off.

My grandpa was a meat salesman for many years. He could tell you on and on about how the meat industry in the US pulls all kinds of dirty tricks to maximize the profitability of meat with minimal improvement to overall quality.

[ObscuredBeyond]

*sweat toxins stay in the body

[Eugene]

Everything but #2 and #4 is bullshit , but even they aren't the reason why they don't eat, but why their dumb book tells them not to.

Origins why saracens do not eat pork are purely militaristic: as properly mentioned, uncooked pork can cause severe hazard to one's health. Chicken can cause it too, but cooking chicken is much easier than cooking pork properly.

Now, let's go back 1400 years ago. Think of saracen military -- they were literally hordes. What is a horde?
It's a large gathering of quite dumb, barely controllable, disorganized, disoriented and spread for miles numbers of barbarians that often don't even speak the same language.
Considering that medicine was nearly non-existent back in those days, while being constantly on the move only lowered the amount of food they can carry.
So if one barbarian would cook pork incorrectly due to lack of time, or lack of skills, he can potentially sabotage a good half of that horde thanks to total anti sanitary surrounding them, as sickness would spread like a wildfire across the horde.

Therefore, in order to prevent that, they were prevented from eating pork.
It's the same reason why they ban alcohol -- because getting a horde drunk will result in them being shattered so badly, there's no way they would win a single battle, as good half of them would get lost somewhere.

So asides from stupidity and superstitions, there's literally no adequate reason why saracens shouldn't eat pork, there's more general knowledge on how to cook meat properly, nowadays they're bred differently, and cooking techniques and capabilities have improved significantly.

[CaramelCookie]

https://youtu.be/wv8Cik26DeM

[CaramelCookie]

Yeah watch that to gain some actual knowledge, instead of constantly comparing pork to normal meat.

[Eugene]

@CaramelCookie
1.) Buy quality pork and cook it properly. I eat pork quite often and I'm healthy as a bull.
2.) Saracens didn't had the technology back then (nor they would ever have it that's used in the video without christians and atheists that developed LOL), thus I explained why this rule was added to their book of the life of an insane and arbitrary warlord.

Your video argument is invalid.

[CaramelCookie]

1) No such thing as "quality pork" 😂It's a filthy animal that eats it's own shit and piss

2) So you're saying because there was no technology they just added this rule to their book?
You're clearly ignorant.

[Eugene]

@CaramelCookie
1.) This argument has been pre-dismissed in my original answer.
2.) Re-read my original answer.

Your arguments are void.

[Cowboy6666]

You are ignorant Eugene

[Eugene]

@Cowboy6666 thank you for your highly detailed input

[disgustingweebtrash]

@Cowboy6666 This Ruski is probably the most intelligent person I read on this website.

He writes a huge amount of text and all you can bring to the table is "you are ignorant Eugene"?

wew lad, that itself just screams that you are ignorant.

[Eugene]

@disgustingweebtrash
Some folks cannot handle the truth and/or argument that is based on pragmatism and common sense, especially if they're either saracens or left-wing parasites.

It's especially becoming a plague in the West -- one of the core reasons I even bother to debate on GaG is to... well, somewhat get an experience first-hand in countering such infected individuals in order to have an upper hand should they try to spread their cancer in my country.
Although if they would, I'd prefer better methods --- physical elimination.

[disgustingweebtrash]

@Eugene
Yeah, these sort of people are infested in my country. I don't think they would infest Russia any time soon. They're too busy sucking the cock of mainstream media and denouncing Russia as the "evil big bad guy" who publicly executes gays, hates their women and is killing trillions in Crimea.

People with some form of brain cells would know that this is not the case.

[MohammedF479]

Dude, it's just a simple test to see if we uphold God's authority or not. Even if pork is perfectly fine for us, the real point of the prohibition is to test us to see if we'll uphold God's command.

[Anonymous]

Almost no logic or support of opinion by fact here. It was sufficient to say that you dont do it because the Quran forbids it, the rest is just inaccurate opinion, unless you are vegetarian.

Got news for you, pretty much everything you eat that is animal based consumes a substantial amount of excrement.

Toxins, any food animal that consumes other animals and certain plants accumulates toxins. Any even toed ungulate, cows, pigs, goats, sheep do so, goats, sheep and pigs are among the worst because they consume the longest living segments of vegetation which contain the highest toxin concentrates.

Toxins are eliminated through waste not through sweat by the liver and kidneys.

Bacteria dont take to pork faster than they take to "other meat" in fact chicken and fish and shell fish are far worse offenders.

It has twice as much fat... not true, there are very very lean cuts of meat and fatty cuts... just like any other animal.

It carries many other disease that can be transmitted to humans... so do cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, fish, shellfish...

So, now that you have attempted your bout of self rightousness we all accept that some Muslim's follow the Quran's edict that pork not be eaten, and its fine with all of us. We also accept that many Muslim's eat pork even when it is "forbidden" by the Quran.

So, thank you for your... not very informative mytake.

[John_Doesnt]

The only true fact there is #7. The rest are based on false science about the pig.
1. Pigs only eat urine or poop where they eat when in confined spaces. Or when they are abused. That "study" was unsurprisingly performed by Muslims, so it was clearly biased.
2. Pork is actually better than beef in nutrients. Less likely to have worms, more protein and less fat.
3. Fish don't sweat either, but we eat them. Not sweating doesn't prove anything.
4. Just false.
5. Not even science. Twice as much fat as what?
6. More made up science with nothing to back it up.

Now go ahead and block me like every Muslim does when confronted with the truth.

[ObscuredBeyond]

A voice of reason. To be fair to her, pork does require higher safety inspection than most meats. On the other hand, I don't know a single restaurant that tries to get away with "medium rare pork." It's common sense that pork is either served well-done, or not at all.

[John_Doesnt]

@ObscuredBeyond actually modern pork is extremley safe due to over a thousand years of selective breading. The pig of 1000 years ago was unsafe to eat raw, but now it's been genetically engineered to be perfect for human consumption just like everything else in the grocery store.

[Ghassan2]

1. That kind of study has been done by all kind of humans.
2. I know pork has nutrients, but it's worse than any other meat when it come to worms or diseases.
3. Fish don' sweat but they eat cleaner stuff in a cleaner environment, the sea has a lot of salt which is a great antinacterial substance.
4. I don't know anything about it.
5. I know it's false.
6. The Quran does forbid pork, and we believe the Quran is Gods words, and logically that is the truth.

[John_Doesnt]

@Ghassan2 whatever you say mr. brainwashed.

[Ghassan2]

My decision to be a Muslim was made after a years of extensive research, unlike most, I did my research and if you do yours, you'll change your mind. Saying that Muslims are brainwashed is the most ignorant thing, believe me, I know.

[Ghassan2]

a year*

[TripleAce]

Makes no sense really

You do know that at the molecular level your body breaks down what it needs as fuel and ejects the rest. Have seen the Martian? they grow potatoes in human poop... is that bad? nope, it's science

Fat is not bad to eat, it gives you 9 calories per gram. What is bad is not moving enough to stay healthy. Carbs create insulin spikes... hence making you fat, on the contrary fat does not make you fat unless you don't move... but in that case so will protein

Fish carries tons of mercury but we still find ways to eat it

--> pigs aren't bad, every animal has been given to us for a purpose. Muslims just want to be 'cool' about it. Just a good money making scheme, Halal meat --> opens a market for muslims to make money on halal meat now

[Turkish_Delight]

Pigs eat their own sh*t and piss lmao... I wouldn't eat even If I were a non-Muslim... They live on garbage and they carry parasites from it.
'Pork is clean when its cooked properly', Cook your own sh*t and eat it then... 😂😂😂😂
https://jesusalive.cc/ques154.htm
https://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=463958

[Turkish_Delight]

See how rude christians are...

[JulieXO]

1. Unless you're a health freak, you eat garbage too.
2. What exactly are these "toxins" you're talking about?
3. Sweating is a mechanism to cool off the body, not to get rid of bodily wastes.
4. & 6. Salmonella, vibriosis, avian flu and mad cow disease are illnesses cause by meats other than pork. The first two are bacterial. I doubt pork is any more likely to be infected.
5. Pork has less fat than beef.
7. The only legit reason. There's nothing wrong with not eating pork, but I don't think you should spread false info about it.

[MohammedF479]

Guys, the real reason why Muslims don't eat pork is because the Quran forbids it. As for why, the likely resson is that it my be a test of reverence to God, but Quran didn't say why. Just like how blood, and animals that died without human intervention are forbidden, unless we're somehow forced to or if it would save our lives like a last resort, we can eat those things. That's all there is to it. In fact, all two Abrahamic religions forbid pork, does not include Modern Christianity because Jesus himself never said anything of a new religion, he was a Jew prophet all his life, and he was given Jewish revelation, and even said in the Bible his main goal was to uphold the Jewish law.

[vishna]

It's a religious based rule, so, it doesn't have to be grounded in scientific fact. And since you offered no sources to back up anything you said, and used vague but hip terms like "toxins" (what toxins?, are fish ok b/c they don't sweat?) and some of this was just very untrue or misguided ex. different cuts of the animal have different levels of fattiness, lean cut pork is much healthier than steak of beef. And since you aren't forced to eat the entire animal, why does it matter if some cuts are fattier than others-you have the choice to buy what you please.
I don't care that some Muslim people don't eat pork, hoorah, haha, I don't eat it either, but I feel like your logic is a bit off.

[RaeSheBae]

I stopped eating pork, or eating less pork.
I feel like pork is not the healthiest option and I also believe that they are dirty animals.
Also because the farmers accumulate them and they live in awful conditions (like all the animals that are going to be killed) and I feel like it's not the pigs fault.
"We" are not eating healthy meat, the pig didn't ask to be a prisoner living under awful conditions and be fed 24h.
I fell like everybody should quit eating meat.

[Anonymous]

actually the reason is much simpler, according to stories (ancient ones ) muhhamed wanted to do a miracle after his people demanded him to since he's a prophet and all, he hid bags full of blood underground in order to tap them with his stick the next day and prove to everyone how he can make the ground bleed... but Pigs dug out the bags and ruined his entire staged miracle so he forbid his people to eat pork.

and since cleaneness wasn't their strong point back then some believe that since pigs ate everything and were dirty they werent fit for eating.

the first reason is the more accurate one though.

he used to drink at some point too (muslims themsleves admit that) but he forbid it too after something happened while he was drunk.

[Opinion Owner]

also pork has much less fat than other meats, proved by science

[Ghassan2]

HAHAHA This story is a bunch of made up crap. If you read it somewhere I suggest you never go back there. I know no Muslim told you that prophet Mohammed used to drink, and by the way he doesn't just forbid stuff like that, you have to be stupid to believe a stupid story like that. The Quran never told why pigs are forbidden, it just told us not to eat it.

[MeutiaArianti]

LOL. This is the funniest thing people ever said. Who Muslim admit it to you by the way? A white Godzilla? Which history is it? I think Ghassan2 is right, you better not visit that website anymore :3

[MohammedF479]

It's a made-up hadith, just like all Hadith are. The Quran just said not to eat it, so we don't eat it. Even the Quran said that Muhammad has no personal miracles of his own. According to the Quranic account, when people asked him to produce miracles, he was commanded to say that he's no more than an ordinary human and a messenger. In other words, he had none to give.

Quran verses 17:90-93: They said, "We will not believe you unless you cause a spring to gush out of the ground. 17:91 Or unless you own a garden of date palms and grapes, with rivers running through it. 17:92 Or unless you cause masses from the sky, as you claimed, to fall on us. Or unless you bring God and the angels before our eyes. Or unless you own a luxurious mansion, or unless you climb into the sky. Even if you do climb, we will not believe unless you bring a book that we can read." Say, "Glory be to my lord. AM I ANY MORE THAN AN ORDINARY HUMAN AND A MESSENGER."

[MohammedF479]

And I agree with Ghassan2 that he doesn't just forbid stuff like that. Quran verse 66:1 reprimands Muhammad for prohibiting something that wasn't prohibited by God in the first place.

[Ghassan2]

You are full of wrong info, man. It's funny that you think 1.2 billion Muslims are that stupid.

[Jan1ssary_]

Well I don't eat pork but I drink alcohol, the reason why I don't eat pork isn't because Quran forbids it. I don't believe strict rules tho, Quran gave people advice to do not eat pork because of the reasons u counted above, because its not healthy for humans.

[englisc]

Reasons I do eat pork:

It's a good source of Vitamin C, niacin, phosphorus and zinc, a very good source of protein, Vitamin B-12, iron and selenium.

Cleanliness issues are only of concern if you under cook it, and no they don't eat urine.

As part of a balanced diet pork isn't bad for you in moderation.

Most of the things people believe about pork come from religion, and don't hold up to science.

[KnightCross]

I second everything that many people have already stated like @John_Doesnt, @TripleAce, the 36-45 male anon, the 30-35 female anon, @JulieXO.

every point u brought on the table is not actually a reasonable argument/motive. i mean, anyone could make up a list of arguments or motives to ban eating Mc Donalds for example.

[luvstoned4him]

I am not muslim but I quit Pork 3 years now because like everything you said... They are disgusting. I am just sorry it took so long for me to see that.

[mutedaisy]

Can you own pigs as pets?
charmingminipigs.com/.../...091-e1431831939322.jpg

[DooMguy]

https://youtu.be/rjQtzV9IZ0Q

[mutedaisy]

I'm just not clear on the rules.

[myTake Owner]

I don't know that :/

[COCOCHANEL]

i stopped eating pork when i was 18 and heard that they don't secrete toxins due to a lack of sweat glands. i already knew they are dirty and eat dirty stuff because i lived in the countryside before and my neighbors had pigs.

[AleDeEurope]

We all know the only reason that matters is #7. If the Koran said you have to eat 10lbs of pork every week, you'll eat it.

[MeutiaArianti]

Why should my God orders 'unnecessary' thing LOL? And as the matter of fact, there's no such thing in the Qur'an so 'kick-your-hypothetic-out' fella! :3

[AleDeEurope]

@MeutiaArianti That's the point of it being hypothetical, kid...

[Anonymous]

8. Human flesh reportedly tastes like pork. Considering how Muslims butcher countless of their own people like animals, they're in no short supply of pork-like meat to consume. No need to raise and kill pigs in this instance.

[MlleCake]

#7 is the main reason. The rest are just guesses as to why God declared pork haram or treif. Some of what you said isn't quite scientifically accurate.