Why is Pork/pigs regarded as a “dirty” source of meat?

Question

Im aware that pigs/boars eat whatever, does this affect the meat we eat in any way?

In: Biology

Answer 1

This is why two of the three religions Abrahamic religions, Islam and Judaism, codified prohibitions against eating pork. These religious prohibitions still stand today for faithful people of either religion, but they no longer have any basis in science for the rest of us: pork is perfectly safe to eat, so long as it’s either correctly cooked or correctly dried (think Iberian ham from Spain or Prosciutto ham from Italy, for instance).

This is why two of the three religions Abrahamic religions, Islam and Judaism, codified prohibitions against eating pork. These religious prohibitions still stand today for faithful people of either religion, but they no longer have any basis in science for the rest of us: pork is perfectly safe to eat, so long as it’s either correctly cooked or correctly dried (think Iberian ham from Spain or Prosciutto ham from Italy, for instance.

Incidentally, religious prohibitions, notably in Judaism, against eating lobster or shrimp stem from the same reasons: 1/ seafood quickly turns bad and dangerous to eat when unrefrigerated and 2/ lobsters and shrimp are omnivores that anything they find at the bottom of the ocean, and notably dead stuff.