Stance on eating pork?

[SacreDoom]

I think you should do some research on pigs.

[hazzor]

This is also a reply to hazzor.

uhh... it is? i'm not sure how you replied to anything i said with that post, you just said that pigs eat a lot of shit...

[Saif_Mahlik]

This is also a reply to hazzor.

uhh... it is? i'm not sure how you replied to anything i said with that post, you just said that pigs eat a lot of shit...

Your haunting my mind hazzor, my mistake I meant SacreDoom

[Amanda44]

I'm not going to comment on eating pork - caused enough controversy recently - but i know a bit about pigs. Before they moved to oz my parents kept and reared pot-bellied pigs, my mothers hobby, they were horrid vicious little things ( ) but they they never once ate their poo.

[Potjeh]

I raise pigs every year and I've never seen them eat shit. Hell, mine got so spoiled they wouldn't eat apples unless they were cooked.

[hazzor]

pigs are pretty intelligent too as far as i'm aware

[schime77]

We make our one salami and sausages from home breed pigs ( plus other things) and i must say it's delicious.
There's also not many things (in my opinion) that can beat pork chops.

Farm breed pigs are something completely different. We also breed for ourselves cows and it's also completely different (better ) meat than meat from mass production farms.

Pigs are generally not bad for your health if you eat them. They are bad if you eat them to much. But that's known fact for many things that we eat.

[Tonkyhonk]

there would be no good chinese restautrants without pork.


back in my univ days, a friend of mine and i hosted a big party, inviting many international friends in town. some american girls ordered pizzas for the party. this muslim guy from bangladesh asked me if the pizza had any pork on it. the pizza he pointed was a plain cheese pizza, so i said no. the next moment i saw him picking a piece from the plate far from him and ate it before i could stop him. he went, "wow, this pizza is good!" i could not tell him it had bacon and pepperoni on it. hopefully his god had forgiven him.

[MagicManICT]

It takes 2-4 hours for a pig to digest it's food whilst in Comparison to a cow which takes 24hours or more, the digestion system for a pig is pretty weak thus enabling diseases to spew around.

I don't know where you got this information from, but a pig's digestion isn't any different than any other animal that doesn't chew cud. If chewing cud was such a great design, why don't more animals do so? Rabbits chew their cud... the problem is location of their hindgut.

However for humans for it could be days as our body breaks down the food in an hygenic manner and does not allow diseases to pass through, this also applies for other healthy animals.

Have no idea what you're talking about here.

Also I live near farms and believe me, pigs eat shit like it's a cheeseburger in front of a cheeseburger loving man. Chickens, Goats and cows don't eat shit as part of there daily 5 a day, it -MIGHT- occur rarely seem as they are animals and fairly incapable of logic, but its not what they regularly eat aside from a pig which does (Although I've never personally seen that).

I'm not going to say I grew up on a farm. That would be a lie. I've lived around them my whole life and my entire family up until my parents were farmers, so I've spent a lot of time on them. Every animal eats their own shit. Cows shit where they walk and the cows coming up behind will just blindly graze on the grass that was just shat on. Goats, another "clean" animal, will literally eat anything you give them, even if it would kill them.

Believe what you will, pigs are no dirtier than any other animal. I don't know if you or your family particularly live by any religious diet. My hat is off to anyone that can maintain that level of discipline in today's society. If your family doesn't, have you seen a slaughterhouse or feed lot? Some of the filthiest places on the planet... human waste treatment plants are cleaner than these things. If you want to "avoid" unclean animals, pick up that religious diet and stick to it. It's only as useful in modern society as some of the other religious practices to avoid the spread of disease before anyone knew what an antiseptic was.

[MagicManICT]

Just a question: Why does the OP have to be about pork? Why couldn't it have been about say... rabbits, or venison (mmm... sweet, sweet Bambi), or some other cute and fuzzy animal that's mighty tasty?

Personally, I don't think there's anything better than varmint stew... what ever you've been able to shoot the last couple of months, just drag it out and toss it in the cookpot. Add a few tomatoes, some taters, and onions, and that's some of the best eating there is. Personally, I try to not butcher the opposums. They're a bit meh, but whatever puts food on the table, ya know.