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Islamic & Jewish Aversion To Pork

China is the number one country in the world for producing and eating pork 58 million tons.

The Chinese people will eat on the average 45 kg of pork per year.
 
China is the number one country in the world for producing and eating pork 58 million tons.

The Chinese people will eat on the average 45 kg of pork per year.

China is also the number one country in the world for producing and wearing shoes.

Is China a nation of great shoe-wearers, or do they just have a very large population that requires footwear?

Back to religious dietary restrictions.
 
I still don't believe it was for health reasons as other cultures in the region did eat pork especially the Greeks are people somehow saying that the nascent Hebrew society knew more about health issues than the Greeks ? Funnily enough Islam has the same prohibition but Christianity does not, early Christianity was heavily influenced by Greek thinking and early Islamic society was influenced by Jewish thinking as they are all from the well spring of monotheism, another very advanced ancient society the Chinese had no prohibition of pork either

But like lots of religious rules and myths the origins are lost in the mist of time
In the New Testament, Jesus says that all food is now clean.
This is why Christians can eat pork (some denominations still don't however).

Of course, Jesus and the New Testament means nothing to Jewish people.

Also I think I'm correct in saying that the terrain of Greece, like Spain (another considerable pork consumer) is/was perhaps simply more suited to pigs than cattle.

It doesn't mean that people didn't sometimes become ill, or die from consumption of pork though.
 
In the New Testament, Jesus says that all food is now clean.
This is why Christians can eat pork (some denominations still don't however).

Of course, Jesus and the New Testament means nothing to Jewish people.

Also I think I'm correct in saying that the terrain of Greece, like Spain (another considerable pork consumer) is/was perhaps simply more suited to pigs than cattle.

It doesn't mean that people didn't sometimes become ill, or die from consumption of pork though.
I am sure they did, but equally I am sure they got ill eating fowl or other meat I mean germ theory has not been around for that long,
 
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