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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 329107" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I always thought that it was because pigs are risky on health grounds - there are too many parasites that can cross over from pig to human (and back again). Ascaris suum is a pork nemtode, Ascaris lumbricoides is a human nematode that was beleived to have originally been a pork nematode that crossed over into human. I believe humans can also carry Ascaris suum. And that's just the nematodes - there are other parasites which can cause bigger problems. Pig flesh is sufficiently similar to human, for early tranplant surgeons to try using various pig parts (such as hearts and heart valves) implanted into humans. Not that the earlier nomads would have known all this, but they would have learned from experience that keeping pigs can lead to sickness.</p><p></p><p>My uni lessons are rusty and could well be outdated, but I remember husband & I had to write up a tutorial once on the food restrictions according to Leviticus and how it matches up with the health hazards we currently know of. Our conclusion at the time was that the rules laid down in Leviticus were an effective way of keeping a nomadic people healthy without making it too complicated. By setting things out in fairly simple rules, some useful foods might get excluded but to have tried to make exceptions would have made the rules so tricky, that people would have been more likely to break the rules, at a time when they needed all the numbers (of people) they could get.</p><p></p><p>Whenever I think of the manna in the desert, I wonder if it could have been the precursor to Tim Tams! </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 329107, member: 1991"] I always thought that it was because pigs are risky on health grounds - there are too many parasites that can cross over from pig to human (and back again). Ascaris suum is a pork nemtode, Ascaris lumbricoides is a human nematode that was beleived to have originally been a pork nematode that crossed over into human. I believe humans can also carry Ascaris suum. And that's just the nematodes - there are other parasites which can cause bigger problems. Pig flesh is sufficiently similar to human, for early tranplant surgeons to try using various pig parts (such as hearts and heart valves) implanted into humans. Not that the earlier nomads would have known all this, but they would have learned from experience that keeping pigs can lead to sickness. My uni lessons are rusty and could well be outdated, but I remember husband & I had to write up a tutorial once on the food restrictions according to Leviticus and how it matches up with the health hazards we currently know of. Our conclusion at the time was that the rules laid down in Leviticus were an effective way of keeping a nomadic people healthy without making it too complicated. By setting things out in fairly simple rules, some useful foods might get excluded but to have tried to make exceptions would have made the rules so tricky, that people would have been more likely to break the rules, at a time when they needed all the numbers (of people) they could get. Whenever I think of the manna in the desert, I wonder if it could have been the precursor to Tim Tams! Marg [/QUOTE]
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