Jewish tribal elders figured out that pork tends to have a nasty disease associated with it.
From the CDC website
“If you eat raw or undercooked meats, particularly bear, pork, wild feline (such as a cougar), fox, dog, wolf, horse, seal, or walrus, you are at risk for trichinellosis.”
Most if not all those foods is unkosher.
I also believe that there is the fact that pork is the nearest in aroma and taste to human flesh. Indirectly not eating pork might cut down the rare cannibalism.
Since the laws about swine being unclean came from the book of Leviticus we have to assume that Jews from Adam to Moses in his youth ate pork without God condemning them. If swine is so unclean why would God allow Noah to bring Swine into the Ark?
All animals have their purpose, some of them are to be scavengers and keep the earth cleansed of rotting and putrid things. - Having said that, the law was given to the Jews and not the Gentiles, but I’ve often wondered if it wouldn’t be better healthwise not to eat scavenger meats. I do like bacon, well done and crispy. In the Kingdom of God, rest assured we’ll eat what’s available and furnished for us.
Hence the term, "long pork" for human flesh.
So God, Jesus and the angels could laugh their keesters off watching everyone argue about swine flue. Think about it....
So God, Jesus and the angels could laugh their keesters off watching everyone argue about swine flu. Think about it....