Is Pork Making You Sick?
Most people never make the connection between what they eat and how they feel. This can lead to a lifetime of sickness and lack of overall health. The problem with western medicine is that it has been designed to treat the effects rather than the cause of disease.
The Bible clearly states what we should and should not eat to maintain health and avoid disease. In the third book of the Bible, a detailed set of dietary laws was established. These laws set the basis for which creatures were designed to be eaten and which were meant for other purposes.
Leviticus 11 describes each of these animals in detail, however, I will cover only the most popular one.
Pork
One of the most popular animals bred for food is the pig. Pork makes up a large portion of the North American menu. In most restaurants, it is hard to avoid. But is it as safe and healthy as most believe?
Much insight into the pig can be ascertained by how they are raised and what they eat. Many have heard the expression, “You are what you eat.” What a pig will eat is shocking! A pig’s digestive system, unlike a cow's, is not designed to filter toxins from its system. These toxins work their way through the pig and are deposited in the animal’s flesh, especially in its fat. The pig itself is actually able to sustain very high levels of toxins. It can eat just about anything. In an effort to keep feed costs down, pig farmers will purchase garbage, such as rotting meat and vegetables, to feed them. There is nothing in a pig's digestive system, or the processing of the meat, that removes these toxins. For most animals, their digestive systems have time to filter toxins, poisons, and deadly parasites from entering their bloodstream and flesh. The same is not true for a pig. Much of what it eats can be assimilated much more quickly. Not only does this mean that toxins are not filtered, but also most of the flesh takes the form of fat! Even in humans, body fat is where most toxins are stored. Typically, when the body does not know how to deal with a substance, it surrounds it with fat and stores it to keep the rest of the body safe. The same is true in pigs. While they have other methods of dumping extremely deadly toxins from their systems, the highest concentration is in the fat tissue.
In addition, a March 1950 Reader’s Digest article stated that pork contains “myriads of baffling and sinister parasites.” Dr. Maurice C. Hall, a zoology chief at the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, stated in the same article, “It appears to be a legitimate demand that, when a man exchanges dollars for pork, he should not do it, on the basis that he may be purchasing his death warrant.”
Pigs are designed as natural cleaners. They will eat just about anything such as garbage, carcasses, or even their own urine and feces. Most of this consumption causes no harm to pigs. They were designed to do such things. They are so efficient at this task that when land is cleared for a golf course, pigs are often let loose to eat all the poisonous snakes, with no harm to the pigs. Every animal has its purpose. Scavengers, such as pigs, are designed to clean, not to be eaten! Some of the “cleaning” features of the pig are remarkable. One is located under its hooves. Often referred to as poison ducts or running sores, these “sores” act as a conduit for poisons to ooze from the pig’s body. This is one reason pigs can eat poisonous snakes that would kill other creatures and not be affected themselves. These ducts, however, will often become “plugged” from the amount of toxins pigs must excrete from their bodies. If this is the case, a farmer must quickly slaughter the pig and send it to market before it dies. Accordingly, the meat from such an animal is riddled with parasites and toxins.
The toxicity of the pig is not just limited to its meat and organs. Even its saliva can be horribly infectious. One disease, called “mad itch,” will cause a cow to rub all the skin from its mouth, to the point of killing itself. All that is required for cows to contract this disease is to come in contact with the residue of a pig’s saliva on shared food supplies!
Furthermore, inside the pig is an abundance of parasites. For instance, a pig can sustain 19 different kinds of worms in its body. Some have minor effects on humans, but others last longer. The parasite that is most widely known causes trichinosis, a disorder that results from an infestation of roundworms. Like most parasitic organisms, this worm is contracted when one consumes meat containing trichinae larva. Once in the intestine, the larvae hatch and grow into adult roundworms. These roundworms then produce offspring that can burrow through the intestinal wall. From this point, they enter the lymphatic system and can move throughout the body via the bloodstream. They then implant themselves in tissues that allow them to grow. Those infected with trichinosis can experience a wide range of symptoms such as abdominal discomfort, cramping, diarrhea, muscle pain, and fever. If the damage to the tissue is severe, the long-term problems are never-ending.
Some of these parasites, such as trichinosis, can also be incredibly hard to detect. Former state senator and chairman of the New York Trichinosis Commission, Thomas C. Desmond, stated in Reader’s Digest, “Physicians have confused trichinosis with some 50 ailments, ranging from typhoid fever to acute alcoholism. That pain in your arm or leg may be arthritis or rheumatism, but it may be trichinosis. That pain in your back may mean a gall-bladder involvement, but it may mean trichinosis.”
The National Center for Biotechnology Information said, “…the anticipated 120,000 to 300,000 human infections each year turn into only approximately 100 reported cases, probably because of the difficulties in diagnosing the disease, the under-reporting of the disease by physicians, and a high proportion of subclinical infections resulting from the consumption of infected swine containing less than one Trichinella larva per gram of pork.”
“Most people with the disease are unaware that they have even been infected. It is estimated that between 150,000 and 300,000 people in the United States become infected yearly, so that at any given time, 1.5 million people have T. spiralisinfections. Most of these people have such light cases that trichinosis is never identified. Worm burden is measured in larvae per gram of muscle tissue; people with 10 or fewer larvae per gram of muscle tissue usually have no significant symptoms. When the number climbs to 100 larvae per gram of muscle tissue, the symptoms become noticeable. People with over 1000 larvae per gram of muscle tissue are usually extremely ill, and often die” (Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine).
Although there are test regulations established to stem infection, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, only “a minimum of 1 gram is tested and the sensitivity of this test is approximately 3 larvae per gram of tissue.” This means that in a three-ounce piece of pork, you could be consuming up to 170 worms!
In addition to this, there is no requirement for regular testing in the U.S., “nor do most states require reporting of trichinae infection in pigs if found” (ibid.).
And this is just one of the 19 parasites found in pork!
Proven by Science
A 1953 study published in the “Bulletin of the History of Medicine,” and written by Dr. David Macht, M.D., tested a variety of biblically clean and unclean animals for levels of toxicity. His findings confirmed that every animal that the Bible declared as clean was found to be non-toxic. Conversely, each animal declared as unclean was found to be toxic and inedible based on these tests. Keep in mind that this study took place in a much less toxic time, so the same animals would be much more toxic today!
The Bible declares certain animals unclean and they are designated as such for a reason. Before science could prove it to be true, God’s Word told the truth. If you follow the laws that God set forth regarding diet, not only will you please God, you will also enjoy optimum energy and health.
Source-
https://realtruth.org/articles/263-apt.html
