Why billions of people won't eat pork (or why we don't know)
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"The Sacred Cow and the Abominable Pig, "1987 book by Marvin Harris about meat taboos: www.google.com/books/edition/...
2015 paper about how chicken may have supplanted pork in ancient Middle Eastern diets (not free): link.springer.com/article/10....
2015 paper showing that pig-eating persisted among ancient Israelites, particularly those in the Northern Kingdom: www.researchgate.net/publicat... - Jak na to + styl
My man researched all of that just because he was intrigued why his pork videos didn’t do as good as the other ones
haha underrated comment 😂
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In western countries muslims eat pork and also drink alcohol. I have seen myself couple of times. So those people are not muslims?
@@tarunm4534 I'm not sure. Do you consider them Muslim?
@@lasergabe I m not Muslim so I dont know that's why I asked another Muslim here.
“All religions can make a beautiful website with square space” I’m so sorry to tell you about the Amish Adam...
Believe it or not, not all Amish dont use electricity...
wait thats a religion? i thought that was just a lifestyle choice, like being a vegetarian or vegan.
Amish can only use PHP 5 and pure html
The Amish can use Square Space if they find it to be beneficial to their community and if it has zero risk of introducing sinful temptations
Unfortunately, the prerequisite known as the Internet does not meet their criteria
The Amish are a specific group of Christians, not their own religion.
Chicken wasn't a major part of the middleastern diet until recently. The major animal consumed was goat/lamb, cattle, camel, and other birds like quail.
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Lamb is a baby sheep. They want to be with their families. Please make kinder choices for the future that our descendants will be proud of. Be on the right side of history. Live vegan
@@estinhewartlamb is very good
I have read other sources saying that chicken raising pre-dates agriculture, though. Chickens are unique among birds, as they lay eggs and always keep the nest fully supplied. If a chicken has 4 eggs in his nest, and you get two of them, the chicken will lay two eggs (in three or four days) in order to bring back the number to 4. This was noticed since very ancient times. Also, chicken don't fly so they "lend themselves" to raising for eggs (and for meat).
What a legend for putting the sponsor at the end of the video.
the peaceful animals must be kept safe
That means his videos are watched 'till the end, which is odd these days.
@@homosexualbiologicalmaleexit Said the homosexual biological male only 🤡No, animals are meant to be eaten and used.
The fat of swine will combine with your insulin, and get stored as fat . Swine stores an unimaginable amount of toxoplasmosis. “Do not even touch its dead carcass” -Leviticus. Pigs eat their own poop , even when they don’t need too . Eating large amounts of ham every day will eventually cause your throat to close like a knee jerk reaction. Beef doesn’t do that.
“Do not even touch it’s dead carcass “ - Leviticus
Fun fact: Pumba in the original 2D “The Lion King” was a red color, because the animators took a trip to Africa for research before production began and noticed the wild warthogs in the savanna were bright red from rolling around in mud to keep cool. The bright caked mud is why the artists chose that color pallet for the character :)
“Original 2d” you mean the only one i’ll recognize
That’s kind of obvious but interesting
@@MsZsc lmao
MrZsc lmfao nerrrd
Neat
. I asked a friend from India once and he gave the most insightful, and reasonable, answer. He said, he did not know that pigs were farmed animals (until, he learned about them here) and that in India pigs roam wild (they are not domesticated nor farm raised.) The reason they refuse to eat pork is mostly because: "pigs, in india, eat dead bodies, other dead animals and garbage."
Huh, that’s pretty interesting and definitely understandable, meat from something that eats dangerous toxic foods probably shouldn’t be eaten especially if it just swallows it whole.
Not entirely true. Pigs are farmed for meat in India mostly in Kerala and Goa. Northeastern parts also consume pork.
Oh, that's actually what my father taught me too
@@vaxel6873 Kerala and Goa has more Christian population who copy European food culture. It's not native Indian culture. In fact in Indian states we do eat Wild Boar instead of Pigs/Pork.
@@AjitKomurlekar
What do you mean by copying European food culture? Do Europeans eat Idli, dosa, puttu, chappati for breakfast and Rice + veg.curry, fish curry, beef curry... etc for lunch? In Kerala people of different community consume all types of Non veg. foods. Muslims are prohibited to eat Pork. That is the only difference. Kerala Christians are not Europeans to consume European food. Ignornace is not bliss.
Thumbs up.
When I was a kid, my grandpa raised pigs in his retirement. They ran free-range, cleared rocks from fields, and he tended them (water, some corn, some alfalfa) twice a day.
Big thing here: NO SMELL.
Then as a teenager, I drove past a more modern hog farm....the stench was unbelievably bad. My mother explained that the stench was from penned pigs lying in their filth, and grandpa's pigs had been free to roam and set up a pig society on a hundred acres.
Their feed also affects how their droppings smell. I raised some pigs years back and they were free range and fed mainly organic feed without GMO corn which has BT toxin that kills insects by rupturing their innards. When mammals eat BT toxin is causes inflammation of the guts and severe diarrhea and bloating.
My piggies were out busy rooting for rhizomes and healthy roots and supplemented with slops, curdled dairy and organic grain. Their poop was innocuous and about as stinky as out cows poops were. Pigs also housetrain themselves instinctively and never poop where they eat or sleep unless they have no other option.
could you eat a Wild ape even if he is 100% Herbivorous ? Ex: gorilla are strict Herbivorous and do live in Jungle (everything is Natural ) but I doubt 99% you'll say : Gorilla are OK to eat (even if they weren't an endangered specie) , But because this closeness to Humans , we feel disgusted to eat apes and monkeys !
Well swine are one of the closest animals to Human in their digestive system ! An Omnivorous 4-limbs animal Shouldn't be eaten by humans !
Whenever we confine livestock it gets messy. A cattle feed lot, a chicken house, a pig pen all end up getting churned to mud and excrement. Even horses confined into too small a space eventually strip it down to just dirt.
as an advanced civilization we shouldn't eat any sentient being.@@nizaru100
@@nizaru100 how would you know unless you tried it? Horse meat is popular in France. In Japan, lamb is considered cruel because they're fluffy little babies. In China & Korea, some people farm and eat dogs. Some African cultures eat primates; I'm not against the idea, there just aren't any around here for me to try.
I agree. Even pigs adapt to what humans have become. But pigs in my province are free to roam the fenced forest eating berries and rest under the shade. What I notice about these specific pigs is that they are agile, and do less panting that the pigs you see on farms. It has to do with the environment and sanitation practices.
Even, if we talk about Wild Boars and Wild swine ! I Learnt that Islamic and Hebrew Prohibition is fundamentally about This very Species af these animals (Swines) not What they eat !
We have a feral hog problem here in Texas. They can produce 3 litters a year and do real damage to fencing and crops. Years ago I spread corn for a deer hunt and the next day the area looked like a bulldozer had ripped it up. It's gotten so bad that farmers invite hunters onto their land to conduct pest control. They really move around.
@@chrishooge3442 Is it true the rumor that Cattle or sheep get Swine diseases if they eat in an area where wild or domestic swines have eaten and settled before ?
Reminds me of city pigeons. People call them dirty, rats with wings etc. when they are actually really clean, intelligent and useful animals. Humans bred our modern day city pigeons from rock doves, domesticating them. Through selective breeding, like with dogs, we made the pigeons into heavy egg layers (up to 9 clutches a year with 2 eggs each), as well as kept them loyal/bound to their coops.
So we bred them to be egg laying, meat providing and ever-returning birds that could be used to send out messages.... until we didn't need them anymore. You could now communicate by telegram, radio or phone and it was cheaper to have eggs/meat mass-produced by chickens in cages. So many pigeons got kinda... dumped. Not to mention the slander campaign in the 60's and 70's (thanks, Woody Allen) and now everyone hates pigeons for some reason.
Working in a local pigeon rescue, let me tell you: If the grain-eating pigeons are not actively starving like they do in cities or dying of diseases (that do NOT spread to humans, only between other pigeons), they spend most of their days preening and cleaning themselves and each other. They LOVE to take baths!
So like pigs, pigeons are very clean animals that were forced to eat rubbish and make do with the crap they had, only to then be called dirty and be vilified by humans.
@@Windmelodie I never thought there are countries where people don't love doves !
I'm from eastern europe and pork is probably the most commonly consumed meat, especially in rural regions, because it's simply the cheapest meat available. Don't know why, it just is.
In fact, villagers who kept all forms of livestock, would butcher cows and sell them on the market, but leave the pork for themselves, because selling beef made you more money than selling pork, so they ate the cheaper meat and sold the more expensive meat.
Compared to beef cattle, pigs are a lot easier to raise and require a lot less space and feed. That is a factor in Europe. Lots of people with not much really open space until you get to the Steppes of Russia. And it gets very very cold. too far north. So pigs provide meat at reasonable costs. Here in the States Canada and Argentina, there is lots of open space along with good farmland for the grain, an overabundance of Beef is produced. Besides the pigs, we raise now is a leaner pig. And who does not like to eat a good center-cut pork chop? I will not get into bacon another must-have. Pork is a little less expensive here in the US, but beef is still affordable. It's all the different ways it can be cooked that make it all just so good to eat.
Pigs and chickens are omnivores as Adam said. Since they can eat much of the same things as humans, they can eat the scraps and trimmings that humans don't and therefore can live in closer proximity. Cows, goats and sheep need large pastures to graze which limits where they can be raised. Pigs and chickens can be raised in cities and the supply chain would therefore be shorter.
Given the fact that most of East Asia is lactose intolerant, cows aren't that useful outside of beef so pigs then take center stage. Unfortunately attempting to fuel China's love for cheap pork has led to overuse of numerous antibiotics and the rise of resistant bacteria.
From Eastern Europe as well. Never really liked/like the taste of pigs meat. I find it chewy, and stinky. My dad would always add onions on the pan too , which made the smell even worse. It's like dirty old socks. Ribs are kinda tasty , but difficult to find good ones being sold in a store. And pork schaschlik is fine, but mostly because the meat is usually cooked to fuck , so you often taste charcoal anyway.
The quality of beef depends on the age of the cow: the younger, the better, more tender. But the main food from cows is milk and cheese, so you don't really want to kill your constant food source for a burst of meat. The exception is if you don't have enough space/resources for the increasing number, or it's a bull that you don't need for mating or can't sell. Pigs on the other hand give only meat so you slaughter them when it's convenient, whether that's when the price is higher, when you need food, or in winter. Or you can't keep feeding them and it's slaughtering them or letting them starve. And if you don't have refrigeration, it's safer to prepare the meat in the natural cold. I'm told my great-grandfather (mother's side) wouldn't have eaten pork in the summer no matter what, that was winter food since it would spoil too quickly in the heat.
What really ? In my country pork is the most exspensive 😂.
Markiplier's more cultured cousin
He looks like markiplier xd
He does look like him 🤣
Yup hahaha
i see it now ur right
I can't unsee this now XD.
Thank you I was literally wondering this the other day and you presented the information so well with such clarity, such a great video!
I took care of a Arab man in the Hospital , he asked if we had any plates that had never had pork on them ... I am in North Carolina ... the best we could offer was to make sure his were extra washed ... That would be like going to Japan and claiming a taboo on fish. He was very understanding about it all , a good man
Why didn't you just go out and pick up some paper plates?
@@siphotheguy1870 my thoughts exactly
@@siphotheguy1870 because it’s not required to cater to the needs of religious extremists (ANY religious extremists, not singling out Muslims). No pork and extra clean plates are more than reasonable accommodations.
The man could have easily also demanded:
not to have any women staff in sight of his room
No staff with tattoos
Turn off any elevator music
take away any stuffed animals (toys resembling animals)
Take down any pictures or art that resembles a human
Any meat needs to come from a halal butcher
An extra long smock that covers his knees
If you say these things aren’t real, I’ve come across people who’ve demanded all of these things, they are all haram. Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians all have their own lists, Islam’s list is just a little longer than the rest
@@siphotheguy1870 Hospital. Probably had safety codes and such. For that matter, the man himself seems to be overtly cautious about pork grease (I'm a Muslim myself and as former nurse, the way Hospitals clean untensil is hardcore).
I think washing should be enough from the point of view of Islamic law
"Those chickens are eating grains, grains I could be eating instead directly. Those chickens are competing with me!" -Adam Ragusea
And here, we see an adult male, preparing to face off against his natural rival; the orpington chicken
There has been a mistake, you are serving me the food my food eats ~ Ron Swanson
We're top chicken.
Why I compete with chickens NOT other cooking channels
THE CHICKEN TOOK MY CHILDREN
Goat: Is in a circle full of grass.
Also goat: *I will eat outside*
They’re not very smart animals
Why consume your limited resourses when you can raid the outer world and suck it dry?
Why consume your limited resourses when you can raid the outer world and suck it dry?
goats don’t care what there is to eat. They only care what else there is to eat.
coz grass is greener on the other side of the fence, thats literally where this saying comes from, im shocked that so many people didnt know
That was an excellent discussion on the taboo of eating pork. I really enjoyed it. Thank you so much.😊
@@hartraven67.. you must eat turkey bacon.. shut your mouth and enjoy a pork chop ....
@hartraven67😊
Amazing show, great way to explain this,
I'm not sure if you're gonna see my comment but in Islam you actually can't eat animals such as goat if their main source of food is filth, nor can you drink their milk unless you put them on a clean diet for a little while, hence the shepherd has to be really careful on what to feed his stock.
Yep
Yeah and you can't slaughter an animal in front of another. The diet of the animal has to be nourishing. Plus early Muslims didn't eat as much meat as today. It was more of a luxurious, need-based food. Kinda wished we cared about these things today
Man Islam is truly a beautiful religion.
@@ammarokla7217 lmao
@@kaavi1391 Give me a full sentence or dont bother commenting.
I love how he uploads every three to four days, reliably, I've watched every video!
Mondays, Thursdays, and sometimes on the weekend for special sponsored videos!
Also appreciate it
I've literally watched all his videos. One of my fav yters for sure
Mondays Info, Thursdays Recipes
I think the majority of folks who do this professionally adhere to a weekly schedule
Wow amazing breakdown very informative 🤙🤙
A very well researched & presented video. I can see why you have such a successful channel
here in sweden we have hällristningar "carved events" in mountains/rocks that shows swedes 4000 years ago hunting pigs with bows,sword and spears in the forest. thats 3000 years before vikings.
Indeed. Historically, pigs have been and are very important to our culture here in Scandinavia. Just look how much pork there is on the Swedish Christmas buffé for example. In the old days winter was when the pigs were butchered to help us survive the winter.
@@Yonteh same in romania
@@Yonteh Yes, and norweigian forest cats with a thick fur for the winter, that viking women had was to protect the meat larder from rats, that was heavily salted to preserve it.
Yo that sounds awesome
Danish flæskesteg is also a very prevalent Christmas food.
I'm surprised Adam didn't mention the "pork is the closest to human flesh" theory that I've heard before...
You jest but wasn’t pig heart transplantable (kinda) to humans? Religions do condemn cannibalism...
i heard that too
@@spiritpenguin3603 Yeah, certain parts. My Grandad had a pig's valve transplanted some 15 years ago.
When I was school, some lads pealed some skin from there hands and held it over a Bunsen burner....they said it smelt like bacon. I can’t forget this 🙈
@@maddison5154 what
Great job. Well done.
)))) that was some smooth transition there to a square space add!)))))
Adam Ragusea never fails to impress me with his ad transitions
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Never fails to impress me with his courage.
Linus "Tech Tips" Sebastian has entered the chat
The pig into the website transition was so clean
It becomes a game of when's the sponsor for me
Monday’s episodes should be called “food for thought.“
Ur a fucking genius💯
Absolute savage
genius
Are you here from fish for thought ?
Amazing idea!! Adam please do this!!
Thanks for that good info.
Thank you for sharing.
I didn’t think I would finish this video but I was so captivated
Same it’s just too interesting to skip
Same here
same here
hes the food vsauce
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I was raised on a pig farm, we had 200 head of brood sows I had to feed before school. At anyone time we had 150 to 300 piglets to sell. The problems with pigs is yes they will eat you and dig you up if they find you dead, like they did to the baby piglets that died and were buried. The biggest dangers from pigs are pig flu, and trichomonas, and yes worms. I feel that pig flu was the main reason for rejection World wide. I was sick for almost 6 weeks with a pig flu that I keep out of the school I was going to. The teacher almost flunked me, she didn't know how lucky she was I stayed home. Now for the best part, I had a pet pig that my mom would send upstairs to get me out of bed with a wet nose kiss in the morning not fun. I could call that pig and he would bring the whole hird to be fed or moved around the farm. That pig never once did anything in the house, he would go to the door to be let out. They are as smart as a dog and he liked to go on drives in the car. This all ended when he got over 250 lbs he then stay out with the herd. Pigs like mud on hot days and that mud could have salmonella and other unfriendly things growing in it. You do have to be careful around brood sows and piglets, I only got pulled in to a stall once. Fear of diseases from under cooked pork at a time when people didn't know what made them sick most likely responsible for the bad rap. 412 BC are found to be the oldest records of flu like symptoms.
I hope you ate the pig 🐷
The crays English gangsters when they killed people they fed the dead bodies to the pigs
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@@nazneenazizbeauty7721 lol
Thanks...very interesting always wondered...im a city girl(CHICAGO)🐷🐖🐽🍖🥓🥘
Once you have eaten a pork chop, there is no way you will let anyone tell you that you cannot eat it, again.
There are myths in the ancient Middle East pre-dating Islam, Christianity, and even Judaism that speak of the gods becoming so enraged with a certain tribes of humans behaving in a animalistic/evil way, and were cursed by taking the form of the first pigs; and were marked as unclean by the gods for consumption. Consuming pigs may have been seen in such cases as a kin to cannibalism, because the were once human.
Which would be my only theory as to why.
its also mentioned in Quran that a tribe were transformed by God into pigs and apes bcz they did some really evil deeds
I heard that too
This story reminds me of Ghibli’s movie: Spirited Away, where the main character’s parents turned into pigs by deities. Probably inspired by similar (men turned into pigs) Japanese old folklore.
Those who broke the Sabbath were transformed into apes and or pigs as a punishment. - Qur'an 5:60
Does this mirror what you are saying about people behaving like pigs so they get transformed into pigs?
@@RommelManurung That's in the Qur'an 5:60 - maybe it's a reference to those who broke the Sabbath in Qur'an 2:65
Meanwhile Farmer Ragusea in another universe:
*Why I feed my wheat, not my pig*
Lol
Long live the empire
lol
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You can "feed" your wheat with soil that contains pig, then use that wheat to feed your pigs, hence getting pig²
Can we just appreciate how Adam was able to take perspectives from the 3 religions respectfully?
@racmaximus are there more texts on it?
Adam was a cheater, he was cover on front of Eva but was seen naked all the time with his sister in-law Ema. Look at the book I am not lying to you.😳
@racmaximus This is a surprisingly well-written explanation.
@Swag Monke 🤣🤣🤣
Not every atheist is a redditor mate
I used to not eat as much pork because the cholesterol myth was still pretty prevalent.
Recently, I discovered that in my region, there are now farmers that produce ancient breeds (you know, the ones with fur). The kicker for me was the following: if they are organically raised and can actually forage in the field, the omega-3 fatty acids contents of the meat rivals that of wild salmon. 🤯
I now even cook with lard again.
What's the breed
@beholdenpie Mangalitza (which is actually not that old a breed), Duroc and the Iberian black pig which is like 10,000 year old breed. There are also some races of which I don't know the English translation: the orange Protestschwein or the Bentheimer).
My hypothesis is that eating pig was too close to eating humans, therefore it became taboo to some just like cannibalism is. According to Japanese soldiers who were reduced to cannibalism on remote islands in WWII- humans and pigs taste very similar to each other, as well as having other similarities with humans like you noted.
There might be something to that. Pigs are smarter than the other farm animals and more similar to humans than the other farm animals.
@@tw8464humans are also made of 80% same stuff as a banana. Could that mean something 😮🧐
even a pigs hart is useable in a hart transplatation, also dead meat is forbidden and if they eat the dead they absorb the dead and it becomes a part of them
my theory is that its cause of the desert enviroment. the only religion that forbade eating pigs were muslims and jews, and both of them originated in the hot desert enviroment of the arabian peninsula, pig meat spoils faster in hot enviroment, so farming those kinds of animals are far more costly than goats and lambs
@CB-ht9ow good point, but why are we using pig organs for humans and not another animal? There is already someone who is 5% pig and pig 95% human. It could wind up 50-50 pig-human.
I like the way you’ve done this respectfully. Very rare these days.
Respectful, respectful... Did you hear how he talked about goaty. 🐐 Lol. Yes. Very good. Informative and respectful.
If you surf a lot you will get respectful videos as well. Might be your recommendation are toxic.
@@pgh412east Goaty?
@@santalofty5206 the nickname he gave to the goat while talking about it. apparently the previous commenter is offended by that
Literally everything today is respectfully said and politically correct, I dont know in which planet you live Mohamed
I had always heard that the taboo came from the danger of raising pigs rather than the danger of eating them. Because pigs have a very similar biology to humans, it is very easy for them to become a transmission vector that allows a virus to jump from animals to humans. In fact, human meat is sometimes referred to as "long pork", and many firemen give up pork after their first experience with a real burning human because burning human flesh smells very close to cooking pork.I grew up beside a pig farm here in Canada, and the rules for farming pigs are extremely strict due to their ability to pass diseases on to humans. A modern pig barn is actually a remarkably clean environment, and you have to have a decontamination shower before you enter or exit the facility. You also have to wear a disposable "clean suit" and hairnet and shoe covers, very similar to ones seen in hospitals.
Oh thanks for info
I doubt they would have had the foresight or prior knowledge to understand that or come to that conclusion at the time.
@@_netnavi_ doesn't mean you won't notice patterns even if you don't know why the patterns occur
@@_netnavi_ We have modern cannibals. What makes you believe that ancient humans didn't kill and consume each other in desperation to survive harsh climates before language and writing were even an idea? Wild boar evolved in 780,000 BCE, they were first domesticated into pigs in 13,000 BCE. It would not have taken a hungry human long to realize that when cooked and consumed in desperation human meat tasted and smelled like wild boar or the reverse. Also modern biologists use the flesh of pigs to test disease and decay rates of human flesh as it is noted to be the most human like without being human.
@@kaiceecrane3884 yeah, a lot of old cultures have surprisingly effective medicine, and systems of stuff. They clearly don't understand it all, but they just notice it works and do it. I'm sure people who've eaten pigs have gotten more sick than those who haven't
Good information
I’m a Muslim from UAE 🇦🇪 we don’t eat pork I have a lot of Christian friends and they don’t eat pork at all
thanks einstein! question was why?!
ok?
You're missing out and so do they.
arabs just copied what the jews did and called it a religion, a violent one
well they cant because its hard searching for it
I new a fella that had a few pigs. He periodically moved their home to another fenced pasture. He also made them a shower. He dug a deep hole and filled it with gravel. Over that he put a platform with a shower mechanism. The pigs learned to push a lever that turned the shower on for a few minutes. The loved it! Also, the pigs always had access to shade trees. Happy clean pigs!
Happy pigs make better 🥓 🥪
I once saw this gigantic pig in a public farm park in London, it was enormous, I’ve never seen a pig that big, he was literally as big as a car, and it was rolling in the mud together with his own piss and dirt, he wasn’t confined in that area because he had plenty of space to roam around in the park, but he chose to roll in his own mess, I swear after I’ve seen that humongous pig it did indeed put me off of eating them fr fr 🤢 so I can imagine why many people won’t eat them and why they didn’t in the old times
@@dirtydingus5465 i don’t own a dog, and yes I’ve seen that disgusting video, that’s one other reason why we don’t eat people too 🤷🏽♀️😂😂
@Heywood Jablowme bruh meat is good
Clean on the outside probably not on the inside tho
Did I just deliberately watch a 13-minute long history lesson by a *cooking* channel?
Yeah, I recheck his chanel to ensure this is cooking chanel
Yes.. yes we all did.
Yes, yes we did.
I guess..
Let's not forget he's a professor ;)
Pork taste like sweet chicken. If you’ve ever ate phat on beef steak, it has a similar sweet taste. Bacon is chewy / crunchy (depending) Ham has a sweet taste to it, almost like meat dipped in maple syrup or honey. Best way I can describe.
Very perfect explanation.
Oof, I scrolled too far and almost fell into the rabbit hole. Good thing I got out before getting swept away by the sea of arguments. Too many are trying to convince others of what's right and wrong. Eat what you want to eat, believe what you want to believe, but respect others for who they are. If you are unable to understand, accept or live with people who are different than you, you are the one at fault.
Thank you for this sanity check point
Oof i almost read the whole thing
@@Bentleyj06 Hey now be nice :) (:
I couldnt agree more
I really want to eat a dog and a cat right now. Anybody got any pets I can have.
Now I challenge historians to make a cooking video.
Something something wine brined turkey is on the left
Tasting History, max miller, the townsends..
Never seen Tasting History I take it?
I convince that you've never heard mrs. Crocombe
@@bon7029 Love that guy !!
Very interesting video thanks ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Moral of the story: SquareSpace doesn't discriminate
Really love it when adam returns to his academic roots and enters Professor Mode on youtube
Also, another thing is, most civilizations now that have a nomadic history also eschew or at least do not use pork in their cuisine. This is due to the fact that, unlike sheep and cattle, pigs are not very well suited to nomadic pastoral life. Their build and endurance just is not built for it.
Sorry for the late reply but I just have to say that is insanely clever to put together
It makes sence that that they wouldn't eat a lot of pork if their culture has that kind of background but it doesn't make a lot of sence that they would need a rule against it
Mongols are probably the example of nomads and they have no problem with pork.
@@gj1234567899999 Southern Mongols have been under Heavy Chinese Influence since Middle Ages and even before, you will not find much pork in Ulaanbaatar I can tell you that from personal experience.
@@HierophanticRose As someone who lived nomadically on the steppe for a fair time, I agree. Nomadic life isn't preferable for pigs compared to the usual suspects of livestock used in Mongolia: horses, sheep, camels, yak and such. Its also to note that pigs entered the mongolian diet in larger scale following their introduction from China, especially during the Yuan dynasty and from cultural exchange with Goreyo, or Korea.
However, pigs were very very important during the era of colonisation, due to pigs having very sturdy constitutions that allow them to survive in difficult circumstances with limited food. They can survive off human waste, food scraps, do not suffer from the regular shock of infertility that animals like horse suffer after sea voyages and are intelligent and coordinated enough to survive and thrive on their own in the wild.
While pigs aren't too suited to nomadic lifestyles, they are excellent at sea voyages or long journeys that require a hardy, sulf sufficient food source.
Thank you for addressing this issue. I don't subscribe to food taboos for religious reasons, or clothing taboos, or any taboos related to religion for that matter. It all comes down to people trying to outwardly demonstrate affiliation with a group. Additionally it is an exclusive act, meant to exclude others from their group.
My pigs keep clean. When I put them in a new pen, it takes them about 3 days for them to pick one area to poop which makes it easy for me to clean. Unlike my cows, who poop anywhere and will sleep on it when there are clean places to sleep. Plus pigs are great at cleaning hillsides, which would be difficult for me to clear.
But cows don’t eat even dirty grass as you know. I don’t care where they sleep, it gives pure milk and healthy meat to eat. I don’t have to say anything about pigs. Used to live in las vegas, there’s this place when we cross the road, oh boy, the pig farm they said was far from that road but even inside the car you would close your nose, so no, no matter how clean is pig I wouldn’t even touch it…🤭
@@javahonest5720chicken eat poop too, cows stand on their own manure during winter time. Your just avoiding reality at this point. Everything you eat does something which is considered dirty in islam.
And yet they're not forbidden to eat. We simply don't eat pork because our god forbade us to eat it. We don't need any other particular reason. We wouldn't eat it even pigs were to be the cleanest animals on the planet @@Lejeron
@@Lejeron the other user is right about pig being forbidden by our God. No matter what we wouldnt eat, thats first.
Standing on its own manure doesnt mean eating it.
I havent heard getting tapeworms from chicken meat but from porks yes, so you judge. Anyway, pigs and chicken are absolute non comparable animals to us...
@@javahonest5720 in reality, i’ve eaten pork all my life, it nourishes and builds muscle very fast due to high amounts of protein. All that talk about it being bad for you is so outdated and simply ridiculous when you look at nutritional facts.
In Islam, you're not allowed to eat pork, anything that has a set of canine teeth (dogs, cats, etc) and animals that lives in two different habitats (water and land like frogs). And by your definition, no it's not exactly strict. If a Muslim was to be stranded in an island and the only prey available is pig, then it is fine to consume that pork to survive. It's just not halal to consume it daily or for any other time. A lot of Muslims like to leave out this information, for idk what reason, but I think it is important to mention, it might clear up some misconceptions.
I don't know why but I love this comment 😘
I’m sorry but to correct you on your comment, if a Muslim was stranded in a island and the only food was a pig, they still won’t eat it because they have faith in Allah. So yeah
@@homiebear4201 nope,there are certain muslim imam allowed muslim eating pork when there are urgency to do so, especially when the time where you need to sacrifice between life or faith, they allow to choose life instead of faith. this depend on the hadith where Allah ask us to take care of our life in any condition from illnesses, accident or anything.just dont extravagant the condition by taking advantage to eat fully.enough untill you survive. i suggest you to read this link muftiwp.gov.my/en/artikel/irsyad-usul-fiqh/4347-irsyad-usul-fiqh-series-52-suspension-of-friday-prayer-is-it-considered-as-prioritizing-life-compared-to-religion
@@compassisland7382 😀 tbh I posted this because I know some Muslims treat pork like it's disgusting piece of meat when in reality they can eat it in certain situations in order to survive and pray another day. And a pig is just another creation from Allah, so why treat it so bad when you can just be respectful and tolerant of what other people eat when they themselves don't even consume it.
@@homiebear4201 They "won't" eat it? You comment is unclear and false. The fact is they can in certain survival conditions. It's permissible, Allah says so man, in Al Baqarah 173. It's no longer haram. I learnt this in Islamic school.
"Never wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig likes it" - George Bernard Shaw.
IT GOOD TO GET DIRTY HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU MAKE A LIVEN EVEN YOUR WIFE -WASHES HER FACE IN THE WATER HER ASS WITH AN YOU KNOW MEN DO ---SO AN SO AGEN !!! AN SO A LITTLEO DIRT WANT HURT LITTLO YOU
HAVE YOU EVER WRESTLE A PIG IN MUD HELL IT'S IS A LOTA FUN PEOPLE USED TO DO IT ALL TIME INJOYED IT GOOD MEMORYS
@Wyeil Arbukle ILOVE YOU HOPE YOU ARE A GIRL THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE BLESS YOU TO DAY AN FOR EVER
@Wyeil Arbukle NO I WAS SPEAKING OF A NICE WOMAN MY FRIND AS IN TAST
@@charlesborders2893
What and also why do u have caps?
for the islamic faith, the reason not much is written on it, is due to it being mentioned already in the hadith, ( authentic narrations of the prophets/companions and God himself ) which in many of these narrations they tell us to seek knowledge and science things out to make sense of it, the Quran is the book we read and believe and we have to go out of our way to understand it, and get scholars who are well versed in these sections of life and understanding to confirm the ways and add that parallel to the book of our faith.
hope this helps anyone reading this.
Need a similar video on why most west and northern India does not eat much meat.
Note how the pig taboo is geographically associated with water scarcity; also note that we share multiple parasites that are unique to humans and pigs. Living in close quarters with pigs, without modern hygiene, with limited water supplies and drainage incurs serious risks; more serious in populations that are weak and malnourished, which was a prevalent condition for most humans in most parts of the world, until recently.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
@@amanewithjesus5244
That's a weird translation... I like "begotten son" better, because other verses say angels are children of God. Begotten means basically biological, so your translation causes unnecessary confusion. But thank you for sharing. 😊❤
What about South East Asia? The place is very rainy.
*Agree. Swine Flue H1N1 virus strain is one of the worst! Also pigs and humans are so closely related many organs of a pig work in humans for origin transplants. Most people don't know that MOST human diseases are MADE MAN from living in close quarters with live stock. Whats REALLY gross is that the 5 major venereal diseases are traced back to people having sex with their livestock. We sure are a Horny bunch of apes!*
How about we search about Pork Tapeworm !
I was just thinking about this a few weeks ago, I bought some halva online which ended up leading me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of researching Kosher Law, and then I spent a good hour trying to find information on where the restriction against eating pork came from, and it was surprisingly difficult for me to find what I was looking for. Once again, Adam is answering my prayers of "I wish there was some concise information on this topic." Seriously your videos are always relevant and awesome!
Hey I'm a religious Jew and well we just don't eat those foods because we were told, that's kinda it, I mean it's a very weird thought to have but ya. We don't eat pork because we believe that as it says in the Torah not to eat pork so we don't eat pork.
@@binyaminkup2967 that's pretty much the answer I got when I tried researching it. I did find a couple of articles talking about the potential disease issue, but most answers were from Jewish sources and the answer was "that's what God says, so that's the rule". What did you think of the video? I am not religious, so whenever I think about various religious rules or restrictions, I think in the same way that Adam does, where I am curious to know the cultural or historical reasons behind it. But I am curious what someone who is Jewish thinks of non-religious explanations for a religious rule?
@@binyaminkup2967 כן, וזה באמת טיפשי חחח
@@JemRochelle I'm an atheist Jew. I agree with what modern scholars think. "Because God said so" is not a good, valid reason for not doing something. The Tanakh was not written by "God", but by people. And there was a reason those people wrote what they wrote.
@@Abdega Probably so.
Bro you have a good experience
Was on a cruise with a group from Israel recently, they had no problem eating pork sausages or bacon at breakfast.
They probably had roots from USSR related countries 😉
“God’s chosen people” aren’t so religious when you live with them
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@@Zo._
Facts. Although there r also israeli muslims and jewish rabbis who condemn the zionists. And we can't insult israel because it's actually the name of prophet Ishaq (Isaac)
@@SuperSonic-9999they're called settlers not israelis and stop defending a genocidal apartheid state please your tolerance is not helping
@@Zo._
I'm not defending anything. They r called muslim israelis because they're israelis that converted to islam. I'm tired of people acting like every israeli out there is against islam. Israel is not some kind of taboo word either, it's the name of prophet ishaq, so muslims need to stop insulting israel thinking it's a good thing. The genocide is from the zionists, not "israelis".
I once heard the Brazilian secretary of agriculture explain that if you live in a desert ecosystem, you cannot afford to have pigs in an oasis because they will compete with humans for food and are destructive.
True. Feral pigs are devastating to farmland in Texas.
@Galactic Minds Care to provide evidence for pork causing the most cancer?
é meme é?
Earl, I raised pigs and they are very destructive creatures. So much so that I believe they would not survive alone in a desert environment. Peccaries are a different animal. Camels do well in the desert as do goats. Still, I prefer pork often enough due to its price. Lamb is way too expensive. Not mentioned is the difficulty of killing these animals. I still believe a lot less meat would be consumed if people had to off their own critters.
@@markmoreno7295 For sure. It's a lot less enticing when you have to hear their screams, to see and feel how they twitch when you kill them. I do think that maybe we eat too much meat. But i guess not eating at all may have its own issues too. So probably the better approach is to at least respect your kills. To acknowledge that you are taking a life, to own your action. I suppose it would also persuade people to not waste food, to use all parts of an animal carcass. Like it used to be long ago when people were better integrated with nature and not like now when we are chopping it up to follow our whims and we don't even care about its sacrifice, about our loss. We just almost mindlessly consume everything and waste like half. It's like we're a serious illness on our environment that will die at some point and take us with it. The kicker is that the planet can bounce back, we not so much. So we're basically committing suicide in mass and we seem that we can't even stop anymore, like we already pushed the trigger and the bullet is now flying.
As someone who got a degree in anthropology and religion, I'm quite pleased with how well Adam handled this.
You could give him a papal knighthood if he's lucky.
@@terenceherming1838 whats that?
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As someone who thinks a lot of what typically goes on in anthropology departments is a lot of nonsense, I don’t care if you’re that pleased. Marvin Harris, whose ideas are present throughout this video, did a very poor job of reading the Old Testament and came up with a straw man argument against the Books of Moses. Harris has a lot of just *crackpot* ideas.
@@ClosertoBooks even from a religious perspective, the categories are hard to make sense out of. Lots of theorizing by Christians and Jews alike have attempted to figure out why God would have specified the rules about clove hooves and seafood types, etc. It certainly wasn't health related. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of more important food safety guidelines than the obscure and relatively minor risk of trichonosis. I have my own ideas for why those categories were given, pulled together from a lot of academic reading, but I also know that it's just an opinion, and that even experts don't really know.
If pigs are dirty…
What about chickens??
Very dirty
It’s addressed directly in the video. In summary chickens are more efficient at converting waste into nutrients, they produce an extra protein source in eggs and their small size allows them to be more easily slaughtered and cooked before they go bad (which is a big plus pre-refrigerators).
Very intelligent presentation about pigs, never thought I could find a discussion about these creatures interesting.
Me: Let's see what cooking video Adam has for me today.
Adam: Here's a Torah and a Quran, let's go on a culinary history adventure!
Monday is science day, Thursday is cooking day! 🎈
@@Josh_Woodford What's Wednesday and Saturday then?
When I read the title I immediately knew what's going to happen next
Surprised by how few people are triggered by him holding a Quran lol.
It's forbidden on non-Muslims and Muslims that haven't performed Wudu/ritual washing.
The fact that he's doing the subject at all is a MAJOR brave thing for him to do. I'll give him an A+ in both Presentation and Effort!
Interesting not to talk about Hinduism and Buddhism. There is a story about the Buddha travelling and eating some pork that wasn't cooked right and that gave him terrible stomach cramps and diarrhea which lead to his passing. In Asia, when I eat undercooked pork, I get sick for a few days. It happens about 50% of the time when I eat pork, especially in South Korea. I think this is a common issue but I don't hear anyone discuss it.
just make sure you eat well cooked pork i guess.
He does mention at the start that Hindus aren't wild on pork. Although pork is more popular in south India than many imagine.
@LOVEDEEP Singh True, except for like steak
@LOVEDEEP Singh Not in my country, Norway. You can cock and eat pork just like a steak if you are so inclined
@@xxMyNaMeIsBeAsTxx Yeah here in North America and Western Europe. Our pork is very clean. We erased many of the illness that come from pork. That's why here in the United States China buys a lot of our pork, because the people in China don't trust their own pork.
I did some research a while ago and in addition to the risks of tapeworms and other diseases, pig meat has less iron and calcium than beef, though it also has more calories and fewer fats and cholesterol.
Add that to the fact that bovine meat (lamb, venison, goat or beef) can be cooked safely to lower temperatures than Pork or Veal and you can see why it's not the easiest thing to cook for people. (a whole chicken is very easy to cook to safe temperatures).
I also noticed that pigs can eat more carrion than most cloven hooved animals, which is why any carrion birds, or meat eating animals (which would include many pawed mammals or the region). parasites and high Vitamin A contents could lead to similar things.
Lastly, since pigs only benefit to society alive is as a bin, they lost out to many other animals like Chickens, goats, and cattle, despite having similar diets. they can all supply milk or eggs in life to keep them around longer. Pigs only pay their way in death.
I'll be honest, my research factored in God, but when we get to the nitty gritty of it, there's often practical information that can guide us through these teachings.
When I was a little girl we would go to my cousin's house in Louisiana and she had a Beautiful garden with beautiful veggies my favorite was her Collard greens and she would cook them with Fat back/pork those were best greens, but now I use Turkey but every now and then go back to that Fat back the flavor is amazing Lol.Peace
"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye as an equal."
Was that supposed to be funny? Because i had to laugh.
no they dont
"All animals are equal but some are more equal than others."
@Fourthaccount Fr doe stop banning my ass .. vegan or a hypocrite 😩🦠💩🍖🔴.... ???
@@scottleft3672 is that Animal Farm or am I just crazy?
This has to be the most controversial peppa pig episode
Lmao
😂.
cubed pork is just a peppa pig jigsaw puzzle
Great statement!🤣🤣
😂
Pork is avoided in desert areas because they need a lot of water.There is hardly enough for humans.
You guys make me want to join Costco, now.
My history teacher (back in the early 1970s) told me that people from that part of the world mandated against the eating of pork because pigs ate human corpses that were left for 'sky burials' on hilltops. They were also known to disinter corpses from shallow graves. Chickens rarely do that. So it wasn't about hygiene at all, rather about not eating fellow humans (by proxy). Cud-chewers were obvious grass eaters and so didn't eat your grandparents.
There is also the fact that pig's anatomy is extremely similar to humans. Even more similar then apes I believe. Then there is also the case where cannibals' have been interviewed and have said that human meat tastes very similarly to pork. With the prevalence in many early religions to practice ritual cannibalism if a connection between the taste of pig and human was found then it can be seen that when people questioned eating humans they would also question the morality of eating pigs.
@@a-drewg1716 and the taste of burning humans- smell like pork when you cook them
@@coral250 thanks coral
Sounds like a plausible reason for why dogs are also taboo to keep in those religions too, as they would also eat any corpses lying around.
at least i know how to season a booty if needed lol
This guy got so concerned that his pork recipe videos got less views so he decided to make a video on pork awareness 😂
Lmao 🤣
No, he just simply made a video to show how reluctant pork eaters lack solid or even logic arguments, aside from just personal animosities, for their distaste for cutlets
@@FenceThis humour
Lmaoooooooo
@@bakinitright6637 bruh
I am Romanian and I can bring my own personal explanation to this. I think that Muslism and Jews don't eat pork because they live in a dry and hot environment where parasitic bacteria thrive in pork meat. Of course that they didn't know that back then, so they assumed that pork is a dirty animal because it eats pretty much everything. In Romania, we have a saying "I ate like a pig". This means that you ate a lot and everything that you got your hand one. This exemplifies that pigs eat everything, which can sometimes be "dirty" food. Maybe people in the Arabian Peninsula and ancient Israel saw this and said "Hey, pigs eat a lot of dirty food, so maybe that is why we are sometimes sick really bad if we eat it.". This is my "secular" way of explaining it. Religiously, I really don't know. I am Eastern Orthodox and ate pork my whole life, in fact, it is my 2nd favourite meat after chicken.
Very interesting.
As if a video about cooking rice wasn’t divisive enough, Adam decides to bring up the topic of religion.
@Vatan Kömürcü Planet sized balls of Adamantine.
@horriblepancake Agreed. That's what happens when somebody without bias says things.
It's not an issue because that's what happens when a person does something with the intention of bringing information to the table, and not starting a shitstorm.
There's no positioning on wether it's right or wrong to not eat pork, he just says there's nothing to indicate it's actually bad.
For some people cooking rice IS religion so in light of that it is just more of the same ;)
@horriblepancake who is upset? Instigator.
"Sweating like a pig" refers to the moistures content that formed on Pig Iron as it cooled. Pig iron is named because the rows that iron was poured into, were similar to pigs at a trough.
Similar to a litter of piglets suckling at a sow.
Really great explanation. Thanks. Similar to the one "Its cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!" a brass monkey being the device that held cannon balls next to the cannon, and I guess if it got cold enough, the metal would contract enough that the balls might fall off??? Not sure, but that's the explanation i heard. :)
Pigs cannot sweat. Thatvis why they will lay in mud or even filth to try to cool off.
@@JohnSmith-wd9rc exactly
Pigs dont sweat
Chickens do eat grasses, just not as a primary food source.
Amazing content! I love pork meat, and add it to my diet at least once a week.
A nice, respectful, video that doesn’t flat out insult people or call them wrong. Just a simple discussion, 10/10 video!
You need to research what the word discussion means mate...
@@squirrelknight9768 in the comments there are discussions going on, the video is not a discussion.
@@squirrelknight9768 you need to research what jackass means
It insults people with sheer knowledge. Let the science make you jugde by yourself.
"Bees are bad because they sting people! So don't eat honey... that will make you sick!"
500 years later*
"actually, honey is completely safe, you just have to keep sweet stuff away from them and they won't come to get you... We can eat honey now"
"Oh no, you infidel, our ancient Idol said otherwise"
"Your ancient one is an idiot, don't listen to him, listen to logic"
"I don't believe in logic you (X)phobe, I should have the right to believe in fantasy!"
@@ronimausanti9625 bro but like why would you care if a group of people don’t want to eat honey? I’d get what you were saying if it was something important like the rounded of the earth, but it’s just a food.
I'm glad i found your channel. Very interesting topics. Linking the research papers and sources is also very much apreciated. 👌
This explanation took a social path rather than a scientific study
one thing he didn't mention in the video, pork can stink real bad due to boar taint when the meat comes from an uncut male. pig farmers nowadays all castrate their pigs due to many people just can't stand the smell (it's really bad and very strong, i've smelled it before...)
Male pigs are normally slaughtered before, so I don't see how this can be a common practice.
This is yet another non-issue (today).
@@fastertove slaughtered before what?
Before boar taint becomes possible. Male pigs rarely reach maturity. @@hungrysimi
"pigs only resort to filth when we humans leave them with no other option" oh man i had no idea poor pigs
nice answer
@T bird
When talking about them resorting to filth he was talking about them covering themselves in it.
@T bird I mean, I don't think there's any animal that, when given the choice between fresh food and excrement, with trace nutrition in it, will pick the excrement (with the exclusion of species that can only digest food by eating it twice; but even then, with the example of rabbits, given the choice between fresh vegetables and their grassy droppings, they'd probably pick the vegetables first).
My mother told me that years ago. She grew up in a village in Serbia. They were pretty comfortable, money wise, so she had a big grassy yard, and well-built sties, and she raised pigs for a while as a hobby and had a giant sow who would follow her around like a dog and whom she would feed apples out of her hand, and so on. So these were really nice-looking, well-behaved, clean pigs, who were free to roam around in the yard and orchard during the day. Word got around about how lovely my mother's pigs were and some dude from the village came begging to buy one of the female piglets to start raising this great stock himself (he assumed it was a special breed, I guess, though it wasn't), and finally my mom gave in and sold him one, and like a couple days later he comes to complain about how she sold him a sick piglet. It wasn't eating, he said.
So my mother makes a house call and finds her piglet in some awful sty, ankle-deep in muck and completely miserable. So she tells him off, makes him clean out the sty and put a fresh layer of straw down, and she makes him wash the trough and mix up a fresh batch of food - only for one meal at a time, and while he's doing that she's sort of cuddling and comforting the piglet, and when he's finished, they let the piglet back into the clean sty, serve up the fresh chow in a clean trough, and the piglet just goes to town on the food.
So my mother's all, "Won't eat, huh?" and this back-and-forth gets going about how he didn't know Mom's pigs required morning massages and goose down mattresses, and on the other hand, how my mother hadn't realised he wasn't fit to raise pigs or she wouldn't have sold him one, and so on. It went on for years, until my mom eventually left the country. Every time he saw her, like at the store or something, he'd inform her of which brand of Champagne the piglet was drinking this week, etc.
Long story short, pigs are smart and social and they strongly prefer clean living conditions and good food. But people just give them the bare minimum they need to survive and then call them dirty. People suck.
@@austenhead5303
Wow.. A piglet sad about dirty surroundings and not eating filth, that story is really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Pigs aren't herd animals, Abrahamists were nomad herders. They wouldn't have been able to drag pigs, who need shade and mud around the dessert.
This is a very insightful analysis, I'm surprised he didn't mention it although it's quite obvious.
So why they prohibited pork 😒
Nice joke!!
@@k.k8791 they prohibit anything that is different from their own traditions...
@@cbriangilbert1978 But religions are supposed to be universal and timeless so it's not about smthing against tradition or not having a fridge 😆
The religious argument could be, (just like many other religious legal consistencies across different religions across different corners of the earth) that most religious laws follow a similar moral code, because most religions were enstated by prophets sent by god, who created human beings and the earth, and generally legislated for humans a similar moral guidance, through various different prophets and their nations.
It is only after the prophet of a particular nation was long gone, that the laws and religious teachings they left behind got slowly changed and corrupted over time until a new prophet was due to be sent; the last two of whome were Jesus and Muhammad.
While listening. I am drolling. Why. Because pork taste so good. The meat, the fat. I eat it for 32 Yo. My grandpa eat it for 76 Yo. RIP my granpa. And we are really really healthy.
It is their bussiness if they don't eat this delicious food
I Will eat and respect this beautifull delicious meat
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Eels live in dirty place. Many Fishes live in quite dirty place, like cat fish. Dirt is plants food
And if pigs wallow in shit. It is because the owner neglect failing to give them pool to cool themselves
As a grass based livestock farmer (running cows, pigs and chickens) I totally understand the prohibition of pork. It's got nothing to do with them being clean or unclean, but it's their natural habits. The pigs role in nature is the compost turner. They dig in the ground and est all sorts of bugs and grubs in there.
If you were to get a "spiritual message" from that, it would be to look up and aspire to higher things, feed your "spirit" on "cleaner" or "more nourishing" food. After all heaven is always portrayed as up (in the sky) and death and he'll are portrayed as down (in the ground).
And lastly, almost every culture has used pigs as a waste disposal. It's not very "enlightened" to eat waste (efficient and effective yes, enlightened no).
But there's absolutely nothing wrong with pigs. They are wonderful, friendly intelligent creatures who love to have fun. And they have the highest proportion of usable "meat" (including organs and blood etc) of any animal. The Germans call them Kaiser-fleisch for a good reason. They taste fantastic!
Pigs eat 5 times their body weight and have low activity rates. Pigs are guilty of the crimes of sloth and Gluttony. Eating Pigs promotes s.oth and Gluttony because you are what you eat. Don't get fat and greedy on Pigs, man.
The simple answer is "Biomagnification" you probably don't read about it in biology but look up even 8th standard Environmental science it would be there.
Animals that consume other animal have an increased toxcicity level.
Allah in the Qur'an prohobits Muslims from eating predatory animals and predatory birds and swine.
When we look at the co-relation between them, they all have higher toxicity levels. Pork also contains 7 times more Omega 6 fatty acids campared to cattle. Hence it is understood why God would prohibit it.
You are wrong. There is something "enlightening" about eating garbage. You eat something filty and turn it something pure and good: meat. You purify it. For this reason, pork was liked animal of religion before pork ban timespan.
*Atheists claim that they are intellectually superior to religious people because they are willing to question their beliefs, whereas religious people are dogmatic and refuse to question their deepest beliefs and won't consider evidence that could potentially undermine those beliefs.* /
Well, have you ever heard an atheist say:
"I wonder if constantly increasing individual freedom is a good thing."
"I was wrong about democracy being a viable system."
"Maybe the sexual revolution was a mistake."
"The evidence shows that equality of the sexes is destructive."
"Let's have a debate on if freedom of speech and religion is good for society."
"Could it be that women need fewer rights?"
I have never seen an atheist raise these questions or hold these positions up to serious scrutiny. Nor do they provide any evidence for their beliefs on these matters. They simply assert them and ridicule and mock anyone who disagrees with them.
@@mas-udal-hassan9277 I have seen an atheist that told all of these.
Sum of his thoughts:
Increasing individual freedom starts to hurt fabric of commune and humans are group animals. Old democracy was viable but not the bastardised version of todays democracy. Democracy of old should had been defended as time changes everything. Sexual revolution have ups and downs. Absolute equality of sexes is destructive.
Although questioning is good and not having any dogmas is bad too. So the questions you asked, should be asked. Then conclusion shoud be made.
I can argue about this topic too.
One thing people don't know is that a pig will yield more meat per pound of body weight than any other source of red meat including beef, lamb or goat.
In Appalachia, long before the introduction of the Russian wild boar, people would let their pigs run free in the forest all year then herd them down to their homesteads for slaughter and winter. Pigs then were eating foraged forest foods, not waste and they didn't wallow in their own feces. Given a choice, pigs prefer to be clean and have clean water.
Right now, the most valuable hams on the planet are from a certain breed of free roaming pigs in the mountains of Spain that eat a forest diet.
Pigs are also raised in woods in the Monti Lepini, South Lazio region, in Italy. They end up in the Prosciutto di Bassiano DOP. In the Lepini mountains one can see groups of dozen pigs driven by shepherd dogs, but one can also see isolated pigs when hiking in the mountains, at low altitudes.
They eat acorns
Pork is white meat.
Having eaten free range forest pig, I'd say whatever standardized slop they give them at the feedlots is surely an improvement. I didn't care for the flavor at all, VERY gamey and highly variable depending on the season (sometimes very nutty from acorns, other times virtually inedibly skunky). With that flavor, I can understand why wild pigs are rampaging through large parts of the US countryside: if there's no control over the diet, there's no guarantee the meat won't be wormy and taste terrible, so nobody can make money selling it.
Which is why, as a reform Jew, I refuse to adhere to backwards practises that have been obsolete for thousands of years.
Our group cooked 3 whole free range pigs my friend cares for to feed the hospital Vets. They leave nothing too. Kinda grossed me out. They look forward to us coming every year. Never had a issue. I don't eat much meat at all to be honest BUT I will always do what I can for our hospitalized Vets. Most never get to leave.
smooth transitioning from pigs to squarespace.
This was more entertaining and informative than it had any right to be. Thank you! I appreciate you citing your sources as well.
I'm a Muslim and I just wanna thank you for mentioning my religion in this video! I appreciate how you never attempt to say "I think people who don't eat pork don't have any reason to avoid it, and thus should eat pork." but rather you make the more factual claim "there doesn't seem to be any historical backing to this belief".
That first part is true though
Its not cuz he dont wanted to
Its becouse if he did a big chunk of islamic viewers would left his channel
@@Mnemozin Simply not wanting to eat pork is reason enough to avoid pork
@@Mnemozin Sure but you get disgusted by goat or dog meat and you don't say anything about vegans, don't act like you aren't targeting a religion chief.
We basically don't eat pork because it is forbidden, not because we think it is disgusting (although many do).
It is just a test of will and whether we obey or not.
The Pig is also an allegory in the Bible. It has split hooves but does not chew its cud. So outwardly it looks kosher but inside it is unclean.
How does chewing cud make your insides clean?
I love the way you explain and face controverse topics!
"I've seen a pig eat a man. In fact, I've seen many pigs eat many men."
Frank Reynolds
Yeah I was thinking of that as well
Makes me think about how many omnivores/carnivores are eaten by humanity
No joke
Where I grew up, there are stories of farmers with pigs, dogs and cows which end up killing people and children. I watched a pig eat a dead guy who got hit by a truck in town. It freaked the living shit out of me.
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"be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm"
It was a bloodbath
I remember my mother, born in 1917, always warning about undercooked pork and trichinosis. Probably learned from her mother, born in the 1890's.
@@frazix7075 Did you really write that? Go think through that again.
Eating any undercooked meat is risky.
@@tanyamckenzie7482 Not true. Beef and lamb is at it's best with it being undercooked compared to pork or fowl.
@@frequentlycynical642 you can still get ill from it if animal had disease. Do you remember mad cow disease?
@@tanyamckenzie7482 And what disease would that be? Name one. Millions of people eat rare beef everyday. Steak Tartar? No one is dropping or going to the hospital.
So it initially came from the fact that pigs do not throw up grass and chew it, swallowing it again? Weird shite lol
I think you make quite a lot of good points. I like the point about efficiency ( chikens although in some cases dirty like pigs are more efficient at producing food) which in a way works for islam for being minimalistic (for shia at least ali says to stop eating before your full so that you still have the desire to eat but stop yourself)