There is a town in Portugal that is now world famous for it’s dried meats and salamis.
They originally started producing this during the muslim invasions of Spain and Portugal, and they put pork products in every single home and business.
It’s like kryptonite, apparently.
I read once that the peasants in Ukraine started raising pigs when they were under Mongol rule, after the Mongols had become Muslims. That way their animals would not be taken from them.