I am NOT EATING any more pork!!!

LorinaLynn

I feel like I fell into a scene from Pulp Fiction.

So by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?

infamousmk

You all better not be mixing your fabrics, either!!!!




*making sexy eyes at some pork*

vytamindi

good for you! I am a christian too and also jumped on the no pork wagon. I commend you for the courage to post your stance in the forums. it's really brave of you.

SO BRAVE

lorib75

:laugh: p.s.
so SURPRIZED no one has slammed you for typing "biolical" instead of biological....LOL

Where are all of the spelling nazi's???

TR0berts

What a load of hogwash.

DopeItUp

Congratulations, you've just posted today's dumbest topic. Don't worry though, the day is still young. Someone may out-do you yet.

SuffolkSally

My 3 pigs go to slaughter next Tuesday and will be turned into chops and bacon the week after. Very nice they will be too, and oddly seem to have none of the defects listed, lol.

MizSaz

Do you have any idea how disgusting chickens are?! Pigstyes are cleaner than chicken farms.

The bible is not the word of god, it is the word of the only literate men in the 3rd century.

diodelcibo

Before you start reading, let me explain, biblical reasons or not, I am going with the biolical reasons!!! I have never been a pork fan, I like sliced turkey for sandwich and don't like the taste of pork ham and chops, it's so strong. But after finding this I believe I will not even eat it as rarely as I do!!! YUCK!!!


PIG & PORK FACTS

THE pig or swine is a very popular food item with most Christians. Yet Christians are unaware that the God they profess to believe in had condemned the eating of swine's flesh. The condemnation was based on some very sound biological principles. Here are some facts on pork that prove it to be a very unhealthy food to eat:

A pig is a real garbage gut. It 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.

The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.

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.

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.

Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.

Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.

When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.

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.

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.

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 swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcase (Leviticus 11:8).

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.

The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig.

There are other reasons grounded in biological facts that could be listed to show why pigs and swine should not be eaten. But a true Christian should only need one reason why not to eat this type of food because God prohibited it.

"And the swine, because it divides the hoof, yet does not chew the cud, it is unclean unto you: you shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase." - Leviticus 11:7,8; Deuteronomy 14:8

Those who say Christ abolished the law condemning pork are motivated by their stomach not Scripture. The problems with pork are biological, and Christ never changed the laws of biology. Jews, Muslims, Highlander Scotts , Hindus & Sventh day Adventists don't eat it either.

Yet for all these imperfections I still prefer eating pigs to most things.

MizSaz

If this gets out-dumbed, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

cwolfman13

It's never felt so good to be a BBQ lovin' heathen I must say. Going to 20 hr slow smoke a pork shoulder this weekend...and it's going to be all kinds of awesome.

purrywinkle

I LOOOOVEEEE PORK

vytamindi

The bible is not the word of god, it is the word of the only literate men in the 3rd century.

...so I can't pawn this signed copy I have for money?

...dag.

miqisha

That was the old testament, the new testament doesn't speak about that. Eat what you want. If you want to stop eating pork then stop, but blaming the bible makes no sense to me.

millyvanilli321

What's your source for this?

Apple source? :laugh:

susannahsutton1

Yet Christians are unaware that the God they profess to believe in had condemned the eating of swine's flesh.

Actually, if you took the time to read the New Testament, you would see that ALL (yes, ALL including pork) foods were declared clean for Christians to eat. The no-pork thing is a Jewish rule.

^^^THIS^^^

MizSaz

The bible is not the word of god, it is the word of the only literate men in the 3rd century.

...so I can't pawn this signed copy I have for money?

...dag.

Take it to Rick from Pawn Stars if you don't believe me. His buddy's an expert. :laugh:

cubbies77

Pork and shellfish were "outlawed" in the Bible because they didn't have refrigeration and it was a desert climate. It was very easy for trichinosis and other things to develop in the meat, making it unsafe to eat. As they didn't have an understanding of microbiology back then, they declared pork and shellfish dangerous.

Now that we understand microbiology, pasteurization, and refrigeration, meat is much safer as long as it is handled, prepared, and cooked properly. I'm not saying it's 100% safe, but it's certainly not the potential infection/death sentence it was when that book of fairy tales was written.

stilleto816

i think i lost 5 lbs. just laughing at the response posts! MFP family you guys are crazy, I love it.
oh gotta go my bacon pork chop sandwhich is ready for pickup! lol
Thanks for sharing the info.

Samanthahahaha

Wow, this is one of the most entertaining topics today...some very clever responses to this :drinker: ...sadly, now I crave bacon and I only have roast beef for lunch!:sad:

ksandy1224

I am not reading a word... I love pork and don't want that love ruined!

HIITMe

I've never eaten pork in my life.... no sense in starting now

BeeElMarvin

Vegetarianism wins again

no

rprussell2004

:laugh: p.s.
so SURPRIZED no one has slammed you for typing "biolical" instead of biological....LOL

Where are all of the spelling nazi's???

Yah, I came to say I couldn't figure out whether it was a typo for "biological" or "biblical" in the end.

Or maybe...

DIABOLICAL!

dont_u_mean_carrots

So we must follow scriptures?

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over the man, but to be in silence. 1 Timothy 2:12

Don't like Timothy? how about some more fun from Leviticus that you quote about pork and also wouldn't that make football also against the word of god?

Leviticus 19:27 reads "You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard."

Leviticus 19:19 reads, "You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together." Better check the tags on your clothes...tsk, tsk, tsk.

Do you eat shellfish?

Leviticus 11:10 reads, "But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you."

Leviticus 20:9 If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death.

But don't take my word for it...open it up and verify everything posted here.

Barbellerella

AmberLee2012

bcattoes

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.

I found this line particularly amusing. It specifies T-bone, which is typically not a very fatty cut but makes no mention of the type of pork chop. A loin chop can be nearly lean as a skinless chicken breast, whereas other chops can be quite fatty. Same with ribs, no mention of the type of beef rib, but specifies pork spare ribs which are typically the fattiest.

zaithyr

Yet Christians are unaware that the God they profess to believe in had condemned the eating of swine's flesh.

Actually, if you took the time to read the New Testament, you would see that ALL (yes, ALL including pork) foods were declared clean for Christians to eat. The no-pork thing is a Jewish rule.

^^^ This (as far as the biblical thing goes)

nexangelus

Before you start reading, let me explain, biblical reasons or not, I am going with the biolical reasons!!!

Biolical? That is a new word...