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.
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
. 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.
@@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.
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.
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 :)
You make a point that I can confirm. In my youth, my mother befriended an elderly woman who had, with her late husband, raised pigs for market. Her husband understood that pigs wallow in mud to keep cool (summers are hot in Northern Illinois). So he built a pig shower! He used an old door and rigged it up that when the pigs stepped on it they got a shower. He found that the pigs would willingly take a shower to keep cool, rather than wallow in mud! Those were the days before Big Ag. The pig barn still stands in the Chicago Suburbs. It’s been converted into a garage.
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.
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
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).
Before refrigeration, the rule of thumb in England was not to eat pork in a month which had no R in it i.e. May June July and August, because it was hot weather. Pork goes off quickly in hot weather. It might have been a simple way to avoid food poisoning. Same rule applies for oysters for this same reason. Most strict taboos are in the hotter countries. In the north, it's a guidance rather than an absolute rule.
This is the version I heard as well. But not just England, much of north west Europe in general. It's not so much the eating so much as the slaughter of pigs in the hot weather. And part of that is the lack of sweat glands as well.
the reason pork is so popular is because its cheap , I don't like it , its only good if you turn it into sausage or pepperoni but that is all fat , its processed , the real meat isn't good at all , I don't know why people eat it , I never liked pork or seafood
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 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.
@@_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
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 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.
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.
@@amanewithjesus 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. 😊❤
*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!*
@@amanewithjesusaccording to you if God has "son", then why only 1? Why not lots of sons and daughters?? Is your god facing fertility issues like what's happening in the west right now? Indeed it's an utterly illogical claim to attribute son to the God. God has always been one with no shareholders in His absolute power and authority.
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!
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
Apparently cannibals call people long pig, humans apparently taste like pork and you can also use pig organs in humans… Maybe we are too closely related in someway…?
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.
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.
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
@@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.
In the Quran, pork is explicitly forbidden for consumption by Muslims. The reference to this prohibition can be found in several verses, including: "He has forbidden you only dead animals, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name has been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, then there is no sin on him. Truly, Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful." (Quran 2:173) "And the swine, though it has divided hoof, does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you." (Quran 6:145) These verses and others make it clear that pork is prohibited in Islam and Muslims are instructed to avoid consuming it.
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’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.
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 🙈
My best advice, eat what you want and what you can afford. Don't let anyone decide for you or claim you'll be punished. This is something I will never understand. I was taught that magic was make believe as a child, I can't imagine unlearning that to be in a religion
"Magic" is just supernatural. Supernatural is real we're just taught to think otherwise. Without faith it means nothing. You're right, you can eat what you want but you also must remember you are what you eat. Food is energy. Energy is life. Life is food. Our body is our temple and if you track dirt into the temple especially dirt of another living being such as yourself, you defile it. We are powerful creatures made in the image of what many call God, for others the universe. Now that's not a religion, it's in our nature.
another theory i've heard about avoiding pigs is about them being "only useful dead." cows and goats also produce milk, sheep also have wool, chickens also lay eggs, and so on but humans don't really get anything from a pig while it's alive
pigs have a use if you use them free range, they will eat grass and insects and mice and dig out the ground, so in olden times they were used to dig up grassland and fertilize it and made it easier for the farmer to till the land. goats were first put there to eat shrubs and other hardy stuff, then pigs and poultry would take care of the rest. free range pigs were herded into oak forests, got fat on the nuts and then in autumn before food got sparse, most of them were offed. but if you did not have that around, pigs were less usefull.
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.
@@ChindlerBong 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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@Mas-ud Al-hassan 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.
Veterinary student here. Out of all my medicine subjects, Swine Medicine truly disgusted me and I actually stopped consuming pork because of it. It was kind of weird honestly because I was okay with other subjects such as Poultry and Ruminant Medicine, but there was something about seeing and studying diseased pigs really threw me off.
So one thing that was missed in the video, is that pork tapeworms and beef tapeworms are different species. Pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) is actually significantly more dangerous than the beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata), due to its tendency to cause a disease known as cysticercosis, where the cysts of the pork tapeworm can be embedded in the brain and spine causing meningitis, seizures and possibly death. One thing to note however is that is not acquired by eating the meat, but rather by swallowing the eggs through contaminated sources (such as water), which would have been a possibility with attempts at domesticating the animal. So, combined with the various laws in the Torah relating to cleanliness, and purity, a possible argument could actually be made, that such rules were provided to ensure the safety, and general health of the community. So in short yeah, pork tapeworms are actually worse.
I got a paracite from eating pork fat that I didn't know was in the dish I ate. Luckily a Dr in the US that was from latin america diagnosed me ( after seeing 2 other Dr) and with an antiparasitic med, I was finally cured. I don't remember what the name was, but it caused me considerable pain in my stomach.
Have ya seen the worms coming straight outta pig meat with coca cola? Disgusting. Pigs are unclean. Pigs are scavengers, and will eat humans, no animals that are considered clean will eat a human cadaver. Yahweh says don't, so we don't! He knows why we shouldn't, and that's good enough for me. Ephesians 6:12.
@@waitaminute2015 There is no parasite that can survive proper thermal treatment. Doesn't make pork bad food if person preparing your meal is unhygienic and bad cook. Can you distinguish the difference?
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.
2:28 -- "Pig and human digestive systems are very similar. They basically eat what we eat." 6:50 -- "They eat trash, they eat roadkill, they even eat human excrement." Oh God, what do you have in your kitchen!?
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".
@@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.
Thankfully, as a Christian I am free to eat pork. Pork chops, schnitzle, bacon, pad krapow, pork satay, sausages, pulled pork, all very delicious. Pork is completely safe when properly cooked.
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.
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.
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.
Consuming pork can have health risks related to its composition and farming methods, especially if not prepared properly or sourced from unclean origins. Some potential harms include: 1. Parasitic Diseases Pork can contain parasites like Trichinella, which causes trichinosis. This disease can lead to muscle pain, fever, and serious health issues if the meat is not cooked properly. It can also carry other parasites like Taenia solium (the tapeworm), which can cause digestive problems and brain damage if it reaches the nervous system. 2. High Fat and Cholesterol Pork is high in saturated fats and cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease and arteriosclerosis. 3. Toxins and Harmful Substances Toxins can accumulate in pork due to the nature of pig farming, as pigs may consume contaminated or unhealthy food. Pigs lack effective sweat glands, which makes it harder for them to eliminate toxins from their bodies. 4. Immune System Issues Some studies link pork consumption to increased inflammation in the body, which can weaken the immune system and lead to long-term health problems. 5. Chemicals and Hormones In industrial farms, hormones and antibiotics are often used to speed up pigs' growth, which can negatively affect human health. 6. Cultural and Religious Impacts In some cultures and religions, pork consumption is prohibited due to spiritual and health reasons, such as in Islam and Judaism. To reduce risks, it is always recommended to avoid unclean or unreliable sources of meat. For those who consume pork, it should be thoroughly cooked to ensure the elimination of parasites and bacteria.
This is just BS you pulled from chatgpt. It even has the wrong information about pigs lacking sweat glands. Toxins are removed by the kidneys and liver. Otherwise human beings would die in the winter! Seriously, people like you cannot even think for themselves.
My own theory: Pigs are physiologically similar to humans. So much so, that organ transplants are possible. People who have tasted human flesh say it's similar to pork. Cannibals in the South Pacific refer to human meat as "long pig." So I think ancient prohibitions against pork were actually against cannibalism; that pork could be seen as a substitute or gateway to eating people.
That may be true. Surprisingly when conquistadors first set foot on mexico, bernardino de sahagún which was one of the missionaires that came with them actually tasted pozole when it was still made with human flesh and actually said that pozole with pig meat tasted very similar to pozole with human meat.
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
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?
@@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.
Consider also that older breeds of pigs were bred mainly for their fat content instead of their meat. Lard is _very_ calorie dense and is a fantastic oil for everyday cooking as well as preserving meat in cool cellars. A relatively common method for preserving meat in northern cultures is slowly cooking meat in lard and then letting it cool and solidify encapsulating the meat. As long as you keep it cool, it would stay good to eat, no salt required (though recommended for flavor). You can preserve a whole heritage breed hog in its own fat and still have some left over for cooking. In the Near East, they have olive oil instead, which would be more economical given the volume of production. You can do the same thing with olive oil; it just won't solidify. It might also have been harder to use the lard for preserving food in a hotter climate and potentially have turned rancid quicker. Couple that with cultural aversions to creatures that wallow in filth, and prejudices towards other cultures that do eat pork and there you go.
Another factor could be the the specifics of pigs eat anything. Not sure how true this is, but the saying of don't trust a man with a lot of pigs, because if you were knocked out in a pig pen and they were hungry the only thing left of you would be your teeth... Apparently. But if that is true I can imagine people being like "Don't eat this thing which may be the reason your son disappeared"
We do use animal fats for preserving meat, usually goat meat and fat preserved for the winter called qawarma. Also in the east of Arabia, olive trees don't grow (except some mountain villages), so animal fats and butter (ghee) were the main sources of fat.
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Chickens may make eggs but pigs make bacon. If I could only have one, I choose bacon. But, in God's great wisdom, he gave us both and the most perfect meal in history is still eggs and bacon, chicken and pig, together.
The way I always heard it was because pigs roam around eating whatever they can find and people were keeling over dead all the time in the ancient world becoming a pig buffet. A lot of restrictions were against eating human flesh, so a pig eats a body then gets butchered and eaten and the person is consuming the flesh and blood of a human. Also Shake and Bake hadn't been invented yet.
Christopher Hitchens made a similar argument. He argued that human flesh and pig flesh was indistinguishable and perhaps the abolition of pork was a means for some cultures to stop the murdering of people to sell and pass off as pig meat. I'm not sure if I buy it, but it's an interesting thought.
I think that of all animals, pig flesh is probably most similar to human flesh, and I suspect that pork and human flesh might in some cases be quite difficult to tell apart. This is definitely the origin of the taboo.
When my brother was a new born baby, he had this new born baby smell. It's a pungent human smell. When I was cooking bacon the other day (that I didn't know was 6 months over due) it had this super pungent new born human baby smell and I immediately threw it out because I was about to puke. It was super disgusting and I keep imagining a human baby while the steam from the sizzling expired bacon whiffed by my nose.
@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.
Animals that chew the cud eat grass. Animals that don’t chew the cud eat ANYTHING. They used to, and probably still do, feed corpses to pigs because they will East everything. Even the bones and skulls. You know how millions of people a year go missing and are never found?
Personally I always thought the pork taboo was about efficacy. Like it was said about pigs vs chickens with the eggs. Goat and Cow milk are generally a thing and even camel milk. Also cows provide labor and sheep provide milk and wool while pigs sorta just provide meat so raising an animal with limited food in an arid climate and it does really nothing else but be meat was a huge strain, but as a way to assimilate and reject outsiders is most probable reason as we still do that to this day.
I find it amusing that this is the same reason why pigs are my least favourite animals to farm in Minecraft. Chickens mean arrows, cows mean books, sheep mean beds, but pigs are just... Pigs.
Not entirely true. In the olden days a lot of dishes eaten by poor people (so almost everyone back then) ate a lot of blood and pigs in particular were fairly easy to bleed without killing IIRC. They'd cut the animal, collect the blood and make blood pudding or blood sausage etc. It was a meat alternative for when you couldn't afford meat.
@@jayzenstyle You sound like someone who has already tasted human flesh... or how would you know? Now i'm curious if human ham would be as good... :D Anyway! That's an interesting theory.
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.
2 potential additional theoretical reasons .1. As mentioned, pigs eat anything, and wild boar would sack through the aftermath of battle dead, so eating pork was akin to eating human flesh. We often went pig shooting to minimise stock loss, and find wild pigs tearing apart dead sheep, kangaroos. Easy to imagine 2. Pigs were kept as garbage disposals (as others noted) but garbage included human fesces, si pigs were a sewerage processing plant, with worms, parasites ect being passed in by eating.
Dogs are also used as garbage disposal too. Maybe not all dogs. My neighbor gave me pizza with pork on it for my birthday. He stood in front of me watching me flicker the pork off the pizza. I happened to see my cousin's dog enjoying it. That dog never barked at me again.
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
Pork is the most versatile meat in the world. Chinese have been eating it for thousands of years. You can cook so many delicious meals with pork. If you have not eaten pork before you should try some Chinese pork cuisine. You will definitely fall in love with it.
@@jaideepsingh3821 I had chickens years ago and if I had anything on the grill outside they would jump up and try to get it. One of my hens managed to snag a chicken thigh and ran off with it, it was chicken football with the rest of the flock after that. They ate it all
Having grown up on a farm, I know, for a fact, pigs do NOT like to lay in their own excrement. My brother and I used to clean the pens and the pigs would sleep in one spot and poop in another. We would clean the pens and put the straw bedding in their "bathroom". Every pig, in that pen, would immediately push the straw, with their noses, over to their sleep area. Once they have a designated bathroom, they will refuse to sleep there. We tested it out multiple times. Cows, on the other hand, will do their thing and lay right down in it. They have no designated sleep area, nor do they construct a comfy bed like pigs do with the straw. I know this from first hand experience.
There's a project in the Netherlands called "familievarken" where pigs have (and use) a designated bathroom, based on this exact principle. Good meat as well :D
It's not because pork is unclean... It's because pork shares such a similar biological structure to human meat that pork parasites may form without our own gut biome. That is the real reason we should avoid pork, although many do not know this.
@@TheRealSamPreece So you cook pork thoroughly, killing any parasites that might exist. However, domestic pork is generally parasite free as they are treated against parasites. You do the same with wild game. You cook it through because wild animals are generally suffering from parasites.
OK Now wait a minute! I have been a dairy farmer for 20 years Five years ago I was milking 75 dairy goats, that's right GOATS. I can tell you that, contrary to popular opinion goats do not eat everything. If their hay falls on the ground it is officially bedding. They will not eat off the ground and being browsers like deer they prefer to eat things they must reach up for. This makes them freer of parasites than sheep who are grazers and will eat right to the dirt if grass is scarce .If a goat turd falls in the drinking water My goats will rather die of thirst than drink that water. Goats generally only eat what is good for them and never eat garbage. Pigs on the other hand can and do eat a lot of stuff that we would not consider nutritious. I put two hogs on a pile of composting bedding , from the goat barn and the pigs lived on that pile for a long time. I almost didn't have to feed them. If I found a road killed deer I would take it home and they would make it dissappere in a day or two, bones and all. They root through the soil for anything they want to eat and I think God made them to blend soil. They are subject to diseases that we can get so I can understand the prohibition against pork. Pork spoils faster than red meat so in some cultures it may be questionable to eat pork. Wild bears also carry trycinosis because they eat garbage.
@@R2MintOptions Obviously the trash doesn't go straight to the pig meat. But doesn't it seem logical that eating trash would negatively affect the pig and in turn it's flesh?
@@R2MintOptions the mammal body with distribute the fat it made through itself, some will be taken out of the body because there is nowhere for it to go, since that pigs specifically can not sweat, that fat will go directly into the mammal storage, which is the muscles and the fat around it
The reasoning I was given many years ago (which pertains to shellfish too) is that unlike beef and similar type meat, pork usually spoils from the inside outwards, which means it can’t be safely prepared and cooked after it’s been left out for more than a few hours. Meats like beef spoil from the outside inwards, hence why certain delicacy meats are aged and cured instead of cooked. I’ve seen racks of beef in open air meat markets that had literal fuzzy mold over the outside of it, but after they cut away the moldy rind the meat underneath was unspoiled. Can’t do that with most pork or any shellfish (which is also why shellfish must be cooked alive).
I watched an episode of River Monsters and I remember when he was interviewing a man from a tribe that participated in cannibalism. He asked what did human flesh taste like and he said pork. It totally made sense to me taking into the account of everything we eat as humans and how pigs eat.
@@LouBurna i don’t eat pork but this makes literally no sense.. yes we do eat junk food but pigs eat ANYTHING. we don’t eat our own shit, pigs probably do.
@@nmixx.changeupletsgo Pigs probably do. But what Im saying is most humans put harmful chemicals and processed food in our bodies so it might as well be shit. If you’re not farming your own animals or vegetation, you have no idea what you’re ingesting.
yeah this made a lot of sense to me too. If the internal digestive tract of a pig matches more closely to humans, we might be absorbing the same aspects of the foods we put down our throats. In reality, the food we "eat" comes down to what we actually absorb and what becomes tissue.
In his book, "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches" Marvin Harris, if I recall correctly, makes the point that the animals allowed by the Abrahamic rules are all suitable for raising by people with a nomadic lifestyle whereas pigs do not prosper when dragged around from location to location.
Pigs actually played a major role in the conquering of the Americas as they are great livestock for ships. I think it was extra credits who did a video on it.
Forst off, this is a very well researched video. Kudos to the team. I'm from a third world country, India. Growing up I went to a Catholic (Jesuit) school, so it was as common to see a classmate to bring pork (ham sandwiches) to school in his lunch box as it was to see him bring any other kind of sandwich. As a teen I visited Goa, a popular tourist state on the western coast of India. In villages, many people do raise their own pigs, but it's just as common that toilets are built next to small cliffs where the human waste flows down and is consumed by local pigs. These pigs are sometimes caught and eaten by villagers. It's kinda gross, honestly. So, a lot of people including Hindus and Catholics avoid consuming pork unless they are sure where the meat comes from. I imagine that some ancient Israelites might have stuck to avoiding the meat after seeing pigs eat human shit, too.
If Indians adapt consuming Bacon, there won't be any hunger deaths. where i live, poor people from weaker areas breed their pigs in our alleys so the pigs can feed on our food wastes and etc and they pick the pigs up when needed for food or feast... our government won't give a single fuck about establishing pig farms for poor people for their livelihood and for food needs. well, irresponsible society makes reckless governments.
@@vipint3694 my brother and fellow son of Bharati, this is literally how the world is divided since the 50s. First world is America and its allies, Second world is Soviet Union and its allies and Third World is Non Aligned movement. It's not an insult, it's a name we gave ourselves since 1952.
@@vipint3694 third world doesn't mean poor or underdeveloped, it's just that most third world countries are poor and underdeveloped. The two aren't mutually exclusive. And acknowledging our country's shortcomings doesn't make one "unpatriotic"; being blind to them does.
@@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.
Great vid. My old teacher had a theory about this: In the Middle Ages, pigs were used not only as livestock but as waste disposal. They would consume almost any household waste, as well as dead animals and rotting vegetation. He thought that a taboo arose because we saw what pigs would eat, and asked ourselves "how could we eat a thing that eats our waste". Everything else eats harmless plants, fish, or bugs who gives a shit about bugs at least they're fresh and clean.
I visited a refurbished ancient village in Japan and an exhibit there said the people would wipe their butt with leaves and then feed those leaves to the pigs.
But then we wouldn't eat birds or fish either. Birds & fish are omnivorous & very good at garbage disposal & carrion dining. Both will also dip into cannibalism. Yes, even chickens.
umm... didn't quite understand the connection with the Torah and Maimonides and the pork taboo thing but we will get to that later, something important to mark here is that for us Jews eating pork is just as bad as eating any other not Kosher animal the reasoning behind the double mention in the Torah is to be especially beware of pork because that unlike any other not kosher animal at the time pigs were and are grown in herds - just like any other kosher animal grown at the time(that's what Maimonides wrote as his explanation to the Mishna). The other thing I didn't quite understand is like I get Maimonides said that this is why growing pigs is bad and so and so.... but he is not the reason that we do that. Maimonides was born 1135 and died 1204 AD, if we go with non-traditional sources the Torah was written 500-300 BC and its stated events date more then 1000 years before time of writing. So basically I'm saying the reason we don't eat pork is god told us not to (according to my belief not trying to offend anyone) and Maimonides only added another reason like 2000 years later or something so that doesn't add up right. Of course correct me if you find any mistakes I made I just think that in a topic like that there needs to be a more solid background check and if you ever find an answer to why was it specifically forbidden then id like to read about that :)
"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.
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. :)
He was talking about animals eating poo when they have no other choice. If they have not been fed, they will eat what they can find and their poo probably smells to them a bit like the food they have been eating.
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.
Pigs have one stomach which takes only 4hrs to process food. Cow has 3 stomachs and processing takes up to 24hrs and grass versus whatever pigs is eating is huge difference in quality of meat. Studies show that overcooked bacon can be up to 40 times more carcinogenic from normal. That's why in 80s and 90s FDA was trying to ban bacon in restaurants. What happen?
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.
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.
I wrote an essay on this back in university around 2013! One hypothesis that Adam appears to have omitted from this video is worth noting - ancient Israelites were predominantly a pastoral nomadic peoples, who transitioned into sedentism around the timeline that abrahamic religion was developing from oral tradition to a codified written format. In this ecological context, pigs were one of the most difficult animals to rear - less mobile, requiring more food energy, and needing specific geography to survive due to cooling needs (as Adam mentioned, they do not have sweat glands). The hypothesis is essentially that, these teachings were successful oral wisdom that developed into successful religious doctrine, stemming from the advantage this brought to pastoral peoples.
Adam, you are right, my pig is clean and happy to forage variedly and wifely. But she also love grass but spits out the chewed cellulose. The grass is sweet I think.
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.
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.
@@lookoutforchris Also a lot of Europeans forget that Judaism and even early Christianity are Middle Eastern religion, not European. Jesus for example had nothing to do with Europeans culturally, he probably looked at Europeans as uncivilized pork eaters
This is because wild boars occasionally eat carrion, and even more rarely self-defense kills. It provides a bit more iron they can't get naturally. Tender carrion can be easily crushed, torn and eaten or swallowed in small chunks. Normal Pigs however, rarely need the muscle wild pigs do. So they only need a bit of grain to build fat.
And that’s why bigger viruses are coming from China. Y’all eat anything and everything that’s bad or good. Pig is just unclean to eat. Scientifically or religiously.
As someone who is Jewish, I think much of what's set down in Kashrut law has to do with food hygiene and personal hygiene, and ancient ignorance about germ theory. Pigs are omnivorous, so they eat meat and vegetation, this leads to higher risks of parasites and prions. Ask anyone who's gotten trichinosis from undercooked pork. Shellfish are the carrion eaters of the seas, eating rotting dead things off the ocean floors. So if you don't cook them thoroughly you run similar risks. Back in biblical times, people didn't know about microscopic life, so they didn't understand that undercooking foods left things alive inside that would kill them. The same ignorance also explains circumcision. If you live in a hot dry environment you're going to sweat. And if you don't clean behind your foreskin, you're going to get infections. And in extreme cases it's going to literally rot off. So whether you believe God handed down the rules in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, or they were simply smart ways to avoid common ailments passed off as God's will, this would explain much of Kashrut law and the Covenant. After all, ancient man interpreted all sorts of natural phenomenon as God's punishment for disobeying, so why wouldn't food borne illness and skin infections also be considered such?
Note about pork in Islam. As a muslim, I have read the Quran several times, and Islam doesn't single pork out, actually. Islam prevents the consumption of Carnivorous or Omnivorous animals, supposedly because they're "Stained with the blood of other creatures" or something along those lines. People usually assume Muslims cant eat pork, because they're filthy. However, we don't eat pork because pigs are omnivorous, they will eat meat if given to them. this also means that muslims cant eat dogs or cats. the only acceptions are: Aquatic animals, all animals that live in water are allowed to be consumed by muslims,. Animals that eat insects, bugs, or arachnids. insects are not considered animals in islam, but merely living things, like plants. And finally: Animals forced to eat meat by human choice, or to survive because of a lack of their preferred food options, they are still considered herbivorous. Pork is singled out among muslims becuase of the fact that it's so popular, not because they're filthy. this does not mean they're not filthy though. pigs, alongside camels are considered dirty creatures, because they eat their own waste. camels are permitted to eat, but doing so breaks you wodoh (pre-prayer washing up kind of thing)
Pigs only eat their own feces when they're not being fed enough. The same goes for the myth that they roll around in it-when given a properly sized pen, they actually prefer to separate the areas where the rest and defecate.
My man researched all of that just because he was intrigued why his pork videos didn’t do as good as the other ones
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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.
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 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.
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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.
God said so is the main reason. Submissions to GOD over submission to society and our own desires.
On point
Why is submission to society of greater value than submission to a God?
@@totallyjerd1751 peer pressure.
Its as simple as this
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“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 are a specific group of Christians, not their own religion.
@@jhonshephard921 *laughs in php5 legacy system maintenance* :(
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 😂.
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
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You make a point that I can confirm. In my youth, my mother befriended an elderly woman who had, with her late husband, raised pigs for market. Her husband understood that pigs wallow in mud to keep cool (summers are hot in Northern Illinois). So he built a pig shower! He used an old door and rigged it up that when the pigs stepped on it they got a shower. He found that the pigs would willingly take a shower to keep cool, rather than wallow in mud!
Those were the days before Big Ag. The pig barn still stands in the Chicago Suburbs. It’s been converted into a garage.
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).
Before refrigeration, the rule of thumb in England was not to eat pork in a month which had no R in it i.e. May June July and August, because it was hot weather. Pork goes off quickly in hot weather. It might have been a simple way to avoid food poisoning. Same rule applies for oysters for this same reason. Most strict taboos are in the hotter countries. In the north, it's a guidance rather than an absolute rule.
This is the version I heard as well. But not just England, much of north west Europe in general. It's not so much the eating so much as the slaughter of pigs in the hot weather. And part of that is the lack of sweat glands as well.
the reason pork is so popular is because its cheap , I don't like it , its only good if you turn it into sausage or pepperoni but that is all fat , its processed , the real meat isn't good at all , I don't know why people eat it , I never liked pork or seafood
@@SonnyRick Properly cooked pork meat is delicious.
for me it's the version that makes most sense ...
Same for my family apart from bacon, of course, which is preserved and can be eaten anytime...
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)🐷🐖🐽🍖🥓🥘
“Hey should we eat this animal?”
“Hold on….lemme see his toes”
its deeper than that but make your jokes
@@TheFlipshitz As deep as Mohammed marrying a 9 year old.
@@TheFlipshitz what's the deepness then
Here before someone makes a toe related joke regarding camels.
@@TheFlipshitz These ignorant fools know nothing let them make fun
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
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.
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.
Damn that Squarespace plug transition at the end was FLAWLESS! Nice one my guy!
"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
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
@@amanewithjesus
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!*
@@amanewithjesusaccording to you if God has "son", then why only 1? Why not lots of sons and daughters?? Is your god facing fertility issues like what's happening in the west right now?
Indeed it's an utterly illogical claim to attribute son to the God. God has always been one with no shareholders in His absolute power and authority.
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
Apparently cannibals call people long pig, humans apparently taste like pork and you can also use pig organs in humans… Maybe we are too closely related in someway…?
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
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
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.
In the Quran, pork is explicitly forbidden for consumption by Muslims. The reference to this prohibition can be found in several verses, including:
"He has forbidden you only dead animals, and blood, and the flesh of swine, and that on which any other name has been invoked besides that of Allah. But if one is forced by necessity, without wilful disobedience, nor transgressing due limits, then there is no sin on him. Truly, Allah is Oft-Forgiving Most Merciful." (Quran 2:173)
"And the swine, though it has divided hoof, does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you." (Quran 6:145)
These verses and others make it clear that pork is prohibited in Islam and Muslims are instructed to avoid consuming it.
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.
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
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
My best advice, eat what you want and what you can afford. Don't let anyone decide for you or claim you'll be punished. This is something I will never understand. I was taught that magic was make believe as a child, I can't imagine unlearning that to be in a religion
"Magic" is just supernatural. Supernatural is real we're just taught to think otherwise. Without faith it means nothing. You're right, you can eat what you want but you also must remember you are what you eat. Food is energy. Energy is life. Life is food. Our body is our temple and if you track dirt into the temple especially dirt of another living being such as yourself, you defile it. We are powerful creatures made in the image of what many call God, for others the universe. Now that's not a religion, it's in our nature.
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
another theory i've heard about avoiding pigs is about them being "only useful dead." cows and goats also produce milk, sheep also have wool, chickens also lay eggs, and so on but humans don't really get anything from a pig while it's alive
pigs have a use if you use them free range, they will eat grass and insects and mice and dig out the ground, so in olden times they were used to dig up grassland and fertilize it and made it easier for the farmer to till the land.
goats were first put there to eat shrubs and other hardy stuff, then pigs and poultry would take care of the rest.
free range pigs were herded into oak forests, got fat on the nuts and then in autumn before food got sparse, most of them were offed. but if you did not have that around, pigs were less usefull.
Pigs were also used to eat up food scraps. They were ancient garbage disposal.
Pigs were essential for waste disposal for people who lived in towns and cities.
Truffle hogs are used to seek out rare truffles.
Pig hair for brushes.
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
@@ChindlerBong 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.
Bro is so sympathetic to poor pigs at one point... He almost begged everyone to consume poor pigs. 😂
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.
Adam Ragusea never fails to impress me with his ad transitions
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Never fails to impress me with his courage.
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The pig into the website transition was so clean
It becomes a game of when's the sponsor for me
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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.
"Why billions of people wont eat pork" Its considered unclean by many religions and is very unclean itself
Except it's not
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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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 😆
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.
@Mas-ud Al-hassan 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.
You haven't really addressed the counterexamples in the video. Chickens love bugs and there are almost zero taboos against them.
Veterinary student here. Out of all my medicine subjects, Swine Medicine truly disgusted me and I actually stopped consuming pork because of it. It was kind of weird honestly because I was okay with other subjects such as Poultry and Ruminant Medicine, but there was something about seeing and studying diseased pigs really threw me off.
Nice! Is better to eat sushi from poisoned animals. Pork is cooked. Fish and others are eated raw! STUDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you must study!
Wow this makes so much sense thank you for your input this needs more attention
You are not veterinary student! You are muslim!
So one thing that was missed in the video, is that pork tapeworms and beef tapeworms are different species. Pork tapeworms (Taenia solium) is actually significantly more dangerous than the beef tapeworm (Taenia saginata), due to its tendency to cause a disease known as cysticercosis, where the cysts of the pork tapeworm can be embedded in the brain and spine causing meningitis, seizures and possibly death.
One thing to note however is that is not acquired by eating the meat, but rather by swallowing the eggs through contaminated sources (such as water), which would have been a possibility with attempts at domesticating the animal. So, combined with the various laws in the Torah relating to cleanliness, and purity, a possible argument could actually be made, that such rules were provided to ensure the safety, and general health of the community.
So in short yeah, pork tapeworms are actually worse.
I got a paracite from eating pork fat that I didn't know was in the dish I ate. Luckily a Dr in the US that was from latin america diagnosed me ( after seeing 2 other Dr) and with an antiparasitic med, I was finally cured. I don't remember what the name was, but it caused me considerable pain in my stomach.
@@waitaminute2015 You got a parasite from undercooked food or unhygienic preparation. It could have been vegetables.
Have ya seen the worms coming straight outta pig meat with coca cola? Disgusting. Pigs are unclean. Pigs are scavengers, and will eat humans, no animals that are considered clean will eat a human cadaver. Yahweh says don't, so we don't! He knows why we shouldn't, and that's good enough for me. Ephesians 6:12.
@@conanobrien1 no, I was told it was from pork. It was a mystery until the person who prepared the dish, informed me of the ingredients.
@@waitaminute2015 There is no parasite that can survive proper thermal treatment. Doesn't make pork bad food if person preparing your meal is unhygienic and bad cook. Can you distinguish the difference?
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.
2:28 -- "Pig and human digestive systems are very similar. They basically eat what we eat."
6:50 -- "They eat trash, they eat roadkill, they even eat human excrement."
Oh God, what do you have in your kitchen!?
Facts he caught me off with that 😂😂
food, duh
Lmao I didn't realize that!
LOL
Pigs in Piggery do not eat dirty food. They eat feeds!
Meanwhile Farmer Ragusea in another universe:
*Why I feed my wheat, not my pig*
Lol
Long live the empire
lol
😂😂😂😂
You can "feed" your wheat with soil that contains pig, then use that wheat to feed your pigs, hence getting pig²
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.
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 ;)
Thankfully, as a Christian I am free to eat pork. Pork chops, schnitzle, bacon, pad krapow, pork satay, sausages, pulled pork, all very delicious. Pork is completely safe when properly cooked.
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.
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 !
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!!
Consuming pork can have health risks related to its composition and farming methods, especially if not prepared properly or sourced from unclean origins. Some potential harms include:
1. Parasitic Diseases
Pork can contain parasites like Trichinella, which causes trichinosis. This disease can lead to muscle pain, fever, and serious health issues if the meat is not cooked properly.
It can also carry other parasites like Taenia solium (the tapeworm), which can cause digestive problems and brain damage if it reaches the nervous system.
2. High Fat and Cholesterol
Pork is high in saturated fats and cholesterol, increasing the risk of heart disease and arteriosclerosis.
3. Toxins and Harmful Substances
Toxins can accumulate in pork due to the nature of pig farming, as pigs may consume contaminated or unhealthy food.
Pigs lack effective sweat glands, which makes it harder for them to eliminate toxins from their bodies.
4. Immune System Issues
Some studies link pork consumption to increased inflammation in the body, which can weaken the immune system and lead to long-term health problems.
5. Chemicals and Hormones
In industrial farms, hormones and antibiotics are often used to speed up pigs' growth, which can negatively affect human health.
6. Cultural and Religious Impacts
In some cultures and religions, pork consumption is prohibited due to spiritual and health reasons, such as in Islam and Judaism.
To reduce risks, it is always recommended to avoid unclean or unreliable sources of meat. For those who consume pork, it should be thoroughly cooked to ensure the elimination of parasites and bacteria.
This is just BS you pulled from chatgpt. It even has the wrong information about pigs lacking sweat glands. Toxins are removed by the kidneys and liver. Otherwise human beings would die in the winter! Seriously, people like you cannot even think for themselves.
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
My own theory: Pigs are physiologically similar to humans. So much so, that organ transplants are possible. People who have tasted human flesh say it's similar to pork. Cannibals in the South Pacific refer to human meat as "long pig." So I think ancient prohibitions against pork were actually against cannibalism; that pork could be seen as a substitute or gateway to eating people.
No …they aren’t possible
@@Paul-q3m7kthey are
Yep.. Thyroid replacement therapy uses hormone from pigs..
I heard we aren't to touch pigs. So, we shouldn't be touched either.
That may be true. Surprisingly when conquistadors first set foot on mexico, bernardino de sahagún which was one of the missionaires that came with them actually tasted pozole when it was still made with human flesh and actually said that pozole with pig meat tasted very similar to pozole with human meat.
"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?
Dude your videos are so fun and interesting to watch. Great job!
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.
Consider also that older breeds of pigs were bred mainly for their fat content instead of their meat. Lard is _very_ calorie dense and is a fantastic oil for everyday cooking as well as preserving meat in cool cellars. A relatively common method for preserving meat in northern cultures is slowly cooking meat in lard and then letting it cool and solidify encapsulating the meat. As long as you keep it cool, it would stay good to eat, no salt required (though recommended for flavor). You can preserve a whole heritage breed hog in its own fat and still have some left over for cooking. In the Near East, they have olive oil instead, which would be more economical given the volume of production. You can do the same thing with olive oil; it just won't solidify. It might also have been harder to use the lard for preserving food in a hotter climate and potentially have turned rancid quicker. Couple that with cultural aversions to creatures that wallow in filth, and prejudices towards other cultures that do eat pork and there you go.
Another factor could be the the specifics of pigs eat anything. Not sure how true this is, but the saying of don't trust a man with a lot of pigs, because if you were knocked out in a pig pen and they were hungry the only thing left of you would be your teeth... Apparently. But if that is true I can imagine people being like "Don't eat this thing which may be the reason your son disappeared"
@@LA666zara they do eat anything including each other. They love bacon....
Pretty sure communities that consider pigs taboo wouldn’t use lard either lol
you act like lard has more calories than any other type of fat. I think you meant nutrient dense lmao.
We do use animal fats for preserving meat, usually goat meat and fat preserved for the winter called qawarma. Also in the east of Arabia, olive trees don't grow (except some mountain villages), so animal fats and butter (ghee) were the main sources of fat.
"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.
"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?
@@casono > stop hurting animals !!! You don’t do it with your cute little dog 🤗🐶, or a parakeet 🤗🦜, or a horse 🤗🐴....
Are used to be a hypocrite... 🤥🦠💩🍖🔴.... But now I’m vegan ✅❤️😬🦷💪.. . I don’t hurt animals !!! You should do the same !!!
Chickens may make eggs but pigs make bacon. If I could only have one, I choose bacon. But, in God's great wisdom, he gave us both and the most perfect meal in history is still eggs and bacon, chicken and pig, together.
True
The way I always heard it was because pigs roam around eating whatever they can find and people were keeling over dead all the time in the ancient world becoming a pig buffet. A lot of restrictions were against eating human flesh, so a pig eats a body then gets butchered and eaten and the person is consuming the flesh and blood of a human. Also Shake and Bake hadn't been invented yet.
Christopher Hitchens made a similar argument. He argued that human flesh and pig flesh was indistinguishable and perhaps the abolition of pork was a means for some cultures to stop the murdering of people to sell and pass off as pig meat. I'm not sure if I buy it, but it's an interesting thought.
I think that of all animals, pig flesh is probably most similar to human flesh, and I suspect that pork and human flesh might in some cases be quite difficult to tell apart. This is definitely the origin of the taboo.
When my brother was a new born baby, he had this new born baby smell. It's a pungent human smell. When I was cooking bacon the other day (that I didn't know was 6 months over due) it had this super pungent new born human baby smell and I immediately threw it out because I was about to puke. It was super disgusting and I keep imagining a human baby while the steam from the sizzling expired bacon whiffed by my nose.
an Israeli rabbi from the tenth century said: ”The answer is simple, god forbade it.”
@@anakinskymonke3670 so human babies smell like bacon? that's surprising
"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.
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 !!
Pigs are gross because they aren't chewing on their own barf - what a beatiful logic there
Yet, people still follow the myths! Lmao
Animals that chew the cud eat grass. Animals that don’t chew the cud eat ANYTHING. They used to, and probably still do, feed corpses to pigs because they will East everything. Even the bones and skulls. You know how millions of people a year go missing and are never found?
Just google "pig toilet" .... Now you know why muslims don't eat this meat ..
Personally I always thought the pork taboo was about efficacy. Like it was said about pigs vs chickens with the eggs. Goat and Cow milk are generally a thing and even camel milk. Also cows provide labor and sheep provide milk and wool while pigs sorta just provide meat so raising an animal with limited food in an arid climate and it does really nothing else but be meat was a huge strain, but as a way to assimilate and reject outsiders is most probable reason as we still do that to this day.
I find it amusing that this is the same reason why pigs are my least favourite animals to farm in Minecraft. Chickens mean arrows, cows mean books, sheep mean beds, but pigs are just... Pigs.
@@ShaunCheah ride them
Not entirely true. In the olden days a lot of dishes eaten by poor people (so almost everyone back then) ate a lot of blood and pigs in particular were fairly easy to bleed without killing IIRC. They'd cut the animal, collect the blood and make blood pudding or blood sausage etc.
It was a meat alternative for when you couldn't afford meat.
@Joseph Stalin surprisingly yes... human meat taste similar to pig meat.
@@jayzenstyle You sound like someone who has already tasted human flesh... or how would you know?
Now i'm curious if human ham would be as good... :D
Anyway! That's an interesting theory.
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.
2 potential additional theoretical reasons
.1. As mentioned, pigs eat anything, and wild boar would sack through the aftermath of battle dead, so eating pork was akin to eating human flesh. We often went pig shooting to minimise stock loss, and find wild pigs tearing apart dead sheep, kangaroos. Easy to imagine
2. Pigs were kept as garbage disposals (as others noted) but garbage included human fesces, si pigs were a sewerage processing plant, with worms, parasites ect being passed in by eating.
You probably want to stay away from chicken as well :)
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Dogs are also used as garbage disposal too. Maybe not all dogs. My neighbor gave me pizza with pork on it for my birthday. He stood in front of me watching me flicker the pork off the pizza. I happened to see my cousin's dog enjoying it. That dog never barked at me again.
When I smell my stinky feces, I think of pigs. 😝
@@fastertove and pretty much every single opportunistic wild animal (including dogs) because they all eat all of that
Fascinating & well presented. Thank you.
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
Really love it when adam returns to his academic roots and enters Professor Mode on youtube
This has to be the most controversial peppa pig episode
Lmao
😂.
cubed pork is just a peppa pig jigsaw puzzle
Great statement!🤣🤣
😂
Pork is the most versatile meat in the world. Chinese have been eating it for thousands of years. You can cook so many delicious meals with pork. If you have not eaten pork before you should try some Chinese pork cuisine.
You will definitely fall in love with it.
The Chinese also eat bat, frogs and even cockroaches
@@notv_internetuser3789 don't forget 🐶
Chickens don't just eat grain. I have seen them eat grass, mice, small snakes, and lots and lots of bugs.
And they will also eat...chicken.
@@cwigs2782 well they won't kill a chicken by themselves to eat it they will only do that unknowingly that its a chicken, if a human feeds it
@@jaideepsingh3821
I had chickens years ago and if I had anything on the grill outside they would jump up and try to get it. One of my hens managed to snag a chicken thigh and ran off with it, it was chicken football with the rest of the flock after that. They ate it all
@@cwigs2782 wow😂
@@jaideepsingh3821
It was raw. They’ll eat anything.
Having grown up on a farm, I know, for a fact, pigs do NOT like to lay in their own excrement. My brother and I used to clean the pens and the pigs would sleep in one spot and poop in another. We would clean the pens and put the straw bedding in their "bathroom". Every pig, in that pen, would immediately push the straw, with their noses, over to their sleep area. Once they have a designated bathroom, they will refuse to sleep there. We tested it out multiple times.
Cows, on the other hand, will do their thing and lay right down in it. They have no designated sleep area, nor do they construct a comfy bed like pigs do with the straw.
I know this from first hand experience.
There's a project in the Netherlands called "familievarken" where pigs have (and use) a designated bathroom, based on this exact principle. Good meat as well :D
@@cyberbetica
Might know the Dutch would come up with a project like that. LOL.
My parents grew up in the Netherlands.
It's not because pork is unclean... It's because pork shares such a similar biological structure to human meat that pork parasites may form without our own gut biome. That is the real reason we should avoid pork, although many do not know this.
@@TheRealSamPreece well it's what absolutely everyone says and agrees to and It's their "fIltHiNeSs"
@@TheRealSamPreece
So you cook pork thoroughly, killing any parasites that might exist. However, domestic pork is generally parasite free as they are treated against parasites.
You do the same with wild game. You cook it through because wild animals are generally suffering from parasites.
OK Now wait a minute! I have been a dairy farmer for 20 years Five years ago I was milking 75 dairy goats, that's right GOATS. I can tell you that, contrary to popular opinion goats do not eat everything. If their hay falls on the ground it is officially bedding. They will not eat off the ground and being browsers like deer they prefer to eat things they must reach up for. This makes them freer of parasites than sheep who are grazers and will eat right to the dirt if grass is scarce .If a goat turd falls in the drinking water My goats will rather die of thirst than drink that water. Goats generally only eat what is good for them and never eat garbage.
Pigs on the other hand can and do eat a lot of stuff that we would not consider nutritious. I put two hogs on a pile of composting bedding , from the goat barn and the pigs lived on that pile for a long time. I almost didn't have to feed them. If I found a road killed deer I would take it home and they would make it dissappere in a day or two, bones and all. They root through the soil for anything they want to eat and I think God made them to blend soil. They are subject to diseases that we can get so I can understand the prohibition against pork. Pork spoils faster than red meat so in some cultures it may be questionable to eat pork. Wild bears also carry trycinosis because they eat garbage.
The trash that pigs eat go straight to their flesh? You really think that's how digestion works? Meat is just animal flesh (i.e. muscles).
@@R2MintOptions Obviously the trash doesn't go straight to the pig meat. But doesn't it seem logical that eating trash would negatively affect the pig and in turn it's flesh?
I didn't know pig could eat a whole carcass, does that mean they could eat other animals poo too??
@@ruuoxi yes i think so
@@R2MintOptions the mammal body with distribute the fat it made through itself, some will be taken out of the body because there is nowhere for it to go, since that pigs specifically can not sweat, that fat will go directly into the mammal storage, which is the muscles and the fat around it
The reasoning I was given many years ago (which pertains to shellfish too) is that unlike beef and similar type meat, pork usually spoils from the inside outwards, which means it can’t be safely prepared and cooked after it’s been left out for more than a few hours.
Meats like beef spoil from the outside inwards, hence why certain delicacy meats are aged and cured instead of cooked. I’ve seen racks of beef in open air meat markets that had literal fuzzy mold over the outside of it, but after they cut away the moldy rind the meat underneath was unspoiled. Can’t do that with most pork or any shellfish (which is also why shellfish must be cooked alive).
I just found this food-nerd Markiplier and I like him.
Long lost brother 😂
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I want to like but it's on 69 like
Weirded out when his voice doesn't sound deep enough lol
@@ktelite you wouldn't happen to use Tinkercad would you?
I watched an episode of River Monsters and I remember when he was interviewing a man from a tribe that participated in cannibalism. He asked what did human flesh taste like and he said pork. It totally made sense to me taking into the account of everything we eat as humans and how pigs eat.
@Making America Great Again - TRUMP'S DUMPED! Cause humans tend to eat a lot of junk like pigs do.
@@LouBurna i don’t eat pork but this makes literally no sense.. yes we do eat junk food but pigs eat ANYTHING. we don’t eat our own shit, pigs probably do.
@@nmixx.changeupletsgo Pigs probably do. But what Im saying is most humans put harmful chemicals and processed food in our bodies so it might as well be shit. If you’re not farming your own animals or vegetation, you have no idea what you’re ingesting.
I thought it was supposed to taste like chicken. Maybe it starts to taste like pork for obese people.
yeah this made a lot of sense to me too. If the internal digestive tract of a pig matches more closely to humans, we might be absorbing the same aspects of the foods we put down our throats. In reality, the food we "eat" comes down to what we actually absorb and what becomes tissue.
In his book, "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches" Marvin Harris, if I recall correctly, makes the point that the animals allowed by the Abrahamic rules are all suitable for raising by people with a nomadic lifestyle whereas pigs do not prosper when dragged around from location to location.
@Hussein Abbas Ancient Jews were nomadic when the Torah was being "written" (resited as they were an oral culture)
good point
Pigs actually played a major role in the conquering of the Americas as they are great livestock for ships. I think it was extra credits who did a video on it.
@@gustavusadolphus4344 they are still a rootless people.
mustn't disobey god's own food safety manual. you go to Hell for shellfish, them's the rules.
Oddly appropriate, considering how smart pigs are- it’s almost like eating a lil hoofed human.
Forst off, this is a very well researched video. Kudos to the team.
I'm from a third world country, India. Growing up I went to a Catholic (Jesuit) school, so it was as common to see a classmate to bring pork (ham sandwiches) to school in his lunch box as it was to see him bring any other kind of sandwich.
As a teen I visited Goa, a popular tourist state on the western coast of India. In villages, many people do raise their own pigs, but it's just as common that toilets are built next to small cliffs where the human waste flows down and is consumed by local pigs. These pigs are sometimes caught and eaten by villagers. It's kinda gross, honestly. So, a lot of people including Hindus and Catholics avoid consuming pork unless they are sure where the meat comes from.
I imagine that some ancient Israelites might have stuck to avoiding the meat after seeing pigs eat human shit, too.
If Indians adapt consuming Bacon, there won't be any hunger deaths.
where i live, poor people from weaker areas breed their pigs in our alleys so the pigs can feed on our food wastes and etc and they pick the pigs up when needed for food or feast...
our government won't give a single fuck about establishing pig farms for poor people for their livelihood and for food needs.
well, irresponsible society makes reckless governments.
Saying your country a third world it's certainly not good
Yes India has problem but it's certainly not third world
Atleast be patriotic a bit
@@vipint3694 my brother and fellow son of Bharati, this is literally how the world is divided since the 50s. First world is America and its allies, Second world is Soviet Union and its allies and Third World is Non Aligned movement. It's not an insult, it's a name we gave ourselves since 1952.
@@vipint3694 third world doesn't mean poor or underdeveloped, it's just that most third world countries are poor and underdeveloped. The two aren't mutually exclusive. And acknowledging our country's shortcomings doesn't make one "unpatriotic"; being blind to them does.
@@rustomkanishka i get the same response from people when I say Ireland is a third world country
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.
Great vid. My old teacher had a theory about this: In the Middle Ages, pigs were used not only as livestock but as waste disposal. They would consume almost any household waste, as well as dead animals and rotting vegetation. He thought that a taboo arose because we saw what pigs would eat, and asked ourselves "how could we eat a thing that eats our waste". Everything else eats harmless plants, fish, or bugs who gives a shit about bugs at least they're fresh and clean.
In SU, pigs were often used as a matter of transforming human waste into food.
Why christian eat pig.. your bible said pig forbiden to eat...
Your teacher was right.
I visited a refurbished ancient village in Japan and an exhibit there said the people would wipe their butt with leaves and then feed those leaves to the pigs.
But then we wouldn't eat birds or fish either. Birds & fish are omnivorous & very good at garbage disposal & carrion dining. Both will also dip into cannibalism. Yes, even chickens.
umm... didn't quite understand the connection with the Torah and Maimonides and the pork taboo thing but we will get to that later, something important to mark here is that for us Jews eating pork is just as bad as eating any other not Kosher animal the reasoning behind the double mention in the Torah is to be especially beware of pork because that unlike any other not kosher animal at the time pigs were and are grown in herds - just like any other kosher animal grown at the time(that's what Maimonides wrote as his explanation to the Mishna).
The other thing I didn't quite understand is like I get Maimonides said that this is why growing pigs is bad and so and so.... but he is not the reason that we do that. Maimonides was born 1135 and died 1204 AD, if we go with non-traditional sources the Torah was written 500-300 BC and its stated events date more then 1000 years before time of writing.
So basically I'm saying the reason we don't eat pork is god told us not to (according to my belief not trying to offend anyone) and Maimonides only added another reason like 2000 years later or something so that doesn't add up right.
Of course correct me if you find any mistakes I made I just think that in a topic like that there needs to be a more solid background check and if you ever find an answer to why was it specifically forbidden then id like to read about that :)
"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
Goat dont eat poop bro.....my family have been in business of goat farming for a longtime
They are just trying to make a point.
he is lying, we can eat goat but not pigs.
yeah , you right i never see my goat eat their own poo
he doesnt know hes dumb
He was talking about animals eating poo when they have no other choice. If they have not been fed, they will eat what they can find and their poo probably smells to them a bit like the food they have been eating.
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!
Pigs have one stomach which takes only 4hrs to process food. Cow has 3 stomachs and processing takes up to 24hrs and grass versus whatever pigs is eating is huge difference in quality of meat. Studies show that overcooked bacon can be up to 40 times more carcinogenic from normal. That's why in 80s and 90s FDA was trying to ban bacon in restaurants. What happen?
"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
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.
@@homosexualbiologicalmale--3 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
I wrote an essay on this back in university around 2013! One hypothesis that Adam appears to have omitted from this video is worth noting - ancient Israelites were predominantly a pastoral nomadic peoples, who transitioned into sedentism around the timeline that abrahamic religion was developing from oral tradition to a codified written format. In this ecological context, pigs were one of the most difficult animals to rear - less mobile, requiring more food energy, and needing specific geography to survive due to cooling needs (as Adam mentioned, they do not have sweat glands).
The hypothesis is essentially that, these teachings were successful oral wisdom that developed into successful religious doctrine, stemming from the advantage this brought to pastoral peoples.
Did you pass?
@@Matthew-us1fu Yeah! Barely ha
@@garibalderdash Irony bypass. Ugh, though I bit my tongue.
Have you become a politician in the meantime?! Your statement means nothing.
Well said, But beyond that they are unclean and we're unworthy to be sacrificed to Abba Yahawah in the Mosaic Covenant.
Adam, you are right, my pig is clean and happy to forage variedly and wifely. But she also love grass but spits out the chewed cellulose. The grass is sweet I think.
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.
The Old Testament contains a lot of anti-Northern Kingdoms propaganda. I had never considered the pork taboo in that light, but now it makes sense
Anti northern. What do you mean
@@Deira854 anti Northern Kingdom
@@Deira854 civilizations to the north... is this not obvious? He's probably referring to the kingdom of Israel, which was north of Judah.
@@lookoutforchris No. I think he talking about Europe, who were always pork eaters
@@lookoutforchris Also a lot of Europeans forget that Judaism and even early Christianity are Middle Eastern religion, not European. Jesus for example had nothing to do with Europeans culturally, he probably looked at Europeans as uncivilized pork eaters
This is because wild boars occasionally eat carrion, and even more rarely self-defense kills.
It provides a bit more iron they can't get naturally. Tender carrion can be easily crushed, torn and eaten or swallowed in small chunks.
Normal Pigs however, rarely need the muscle wild pigs do. So they only need a bit of grain to build fat.
I like how he say no body no why while showing one of the evidence of pig playing with mud and covered with dirt 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Me, a Chinese: Pork goes in everything, including ice cubes.
(Edit: I'm exaggerating... but not really...)
Bruh moment
Pork water is disgusting though. It tastes like unrendered fat.
@@phantomgrape lol
And that’s why bigger viruses are coming from China. Y’all eat anything and everything that’s bad or good. Pig is just unclean to eat. Scientifically or religiously.
Disgusting
As someone who is Jewish, I think much of what's set down in Kashrut law has to do with food hygiene and personal hygiene, and ancient ignorance about germ theory.
Pigs are omnivorous, so they eat meat and vegetation, this leads to higher risks of parasites and prions. Ask anyone who's gotten trichinosis from undercooked pork.
Shellfish are the carrion eaters of the seas, eating rotting dead things off the ocean floors. So if you don't cook them thoroughly you run similar risks.
Back in biblical times, people didn't know about microscopic life, so they didn't understand that undercooking foods left things alive inside that would kill them.
The same ignorance also explains circumcision. If you live in a hot dry environment you're going to sweat. And if you don't clean behind your foreskin, you're going to get infections. And in extreme cases it's going to literally rot off. So whether you believe God handed down the rules in Leviticus and Deuteronomy, or they were simply smart ways to avoid common ailments passed off as God's will, this would explain much of Kashrut law and the Covenant.
After all, ancient man interpreted all sorts of natural phenomenon as God's punishment for disobeying, so why wouldn't food borne illness and skin infections also be considered such?
excellent share of knowledge; thank you!
interesting
Agreeded
I appreciate that you gave a comment with a lot of insight about aspects of religion without any religious bias
He talked about this in the video. Why ban pork for trichinosis and not beef for anthrax?
Adam really made a whole ass video on pigs just because he was mad his pig recipes get less views lmao
Exactly what came to mind 😂
That’s how Adam roll.
😂
Which one? The Mole Pueblano or the schnitzel? I saw the schnitzel was doing fine. (Yeah the Pueblano tanked. Not as bad as the Korean booze tho LOL)
I don't eat pork but I do watch Adam's pork video, just for cooking techniques
He speaks like my professor. And I love it. Get my sub!
Note about pork in Islam.
As a muslim, I have read the Quran several times, and Islam doesn't single pork out, actually. Islam prevents the consumption of Carnivorous or Omnivorous animals, supposedly because they're "Stained with the blood of other creatures" or something along those lines. People usually assume Muslims cant eat pork, because they're filthy. However, we don't eat pork because pigs are omnivorous, they will eat meat if given to them. this also means that muslims cant eat dogs or cats. the only acceptions are: Aquatic animals, all animals that live in water are allowed to be consumed by muslims,. Animals that eat insects, bugs, or arachnids. insects are not considered animals in islam, but merely living things, like plants. And finally: Animals forced to eat meat by human choice, or to survive because of a lack of their preferred food options, they are still considered herbivorous. Pork is singled out among muslims becuase of the fact that it's so popular, not because they're filthy. this does not mean they're not filthy though. pigs, alongside camels are considered dirty creatures, because they eat their own waste. camels are permitted to eat, but doing so breaks you wodoh (pre-prayer washing up kind of thing)
Tbh that's the oddest explenation I've heard.
@@PredatorH2O basically its bad if it will eat meat when it has a choice of eating grass or other plants (unless its a water animal)
Makes sense.
Pigs only eat their own feces when they're not being fed enough. The same goes for the myth that they roll around in it-when given a properly sized pen, they actually prefer to separate the areas where the rest and defecate.
Did you not watch the video? There are other animals that eat their own waste if they have to that Muslims eat without revolt. Doesn't make sense.