Originally posted by: Pablo
I thought it was because of Hindu, but I might be wrong. I was in a meeting at work the other day and got to know this woman who was a Christian missionary to the United States from India... She said she was here as a ministry to Indians in the states.
Regardless, pork barbeque sandwhiches were catered, but she said her family did not eat pork. Even though she wasn't Hindu.
So is not eating pork kind of a culture thing, like they just don't like it, or what? Or am I making up the fact that people practicing Hindu don't eat pork...
i am from india. it is not like that.
we are allowed to eat pork but as said below is true.
The cow is considered Holy by Hindus, that's why Hindus don't eat beef pork is generally looked down upon by Hindus as well now with regards to your friends, most Christians and Muslims in India were originally Hindus who were converted into either Islam or Christianity so it might well be a case where her forefathers might have been Hindu and the culture of not eating Pork might have continued.
Pork is prohibited not because they wallow in their own waste, but because in ancient times they wallowed in *human* waste. If you ever look at those archeological digs they do at ancient cities in the middle east, they weren't very clean. Peoples idea of taking out the trash then was to simply dump it out the window in to the street. This is partly why Tels formed. Centuries worth of garbage and trash built up over the years and slowly raised the level of the city. Sites occupied for >2000 years had a lot of garbage pile up.
Because pigs rooted through human waste it was much more likely that meat from pigs was infected with some paracite that affected humans. This is that same reason why one *never* fertilizes a field with human waste. So what if the crops we grow or the meat we eat is infected with a cyst that afftects cows. Our immune system can handle it. But it was much more likely that pigs were infected with something that was harmful to humans.
Anyway, over the course of a few centuries people noticed that people got sick when eating pork, so they prohibited it for religious reasons. Even though conditions aren't the same today this has still carried over. Their loss. Modern pork is no longer unclean because we don't let the animals roam around in an unclean environment.
both the reason are true.
you see we can eat any pork item, but the is always a chance of the pork from the pig being a infected one.
also there is an economic view to this,
majority of indians are hindu who dont touch cow(we consider it sacred),and dont eat pig as i explained.
many Hindus from the southern part of India are vegeterians.
the muslim community dont eat pork.
even few christians do not eat as explained earlier.
so selling pork in India is not very profitable!!
but if you have been to goa, you will definately enjoy the great beef they make there.
Yeah, but bacon tastes good; pork chops taste good.
a chinese guy saying this would be "Ahso, but Fried Cockroach tastes so good,Raw Ducks Eyes tastes son good"
its all in your head.
btw i eat chichen,egg,mutton,fish,pork.not beef.
maybe you people visit here, and my mum can cook you some nice pork vindhaloo.
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