Re: "...I have never eaten pork..."
The following is true.
In the year 2000, I took part in a Talmudic discourse given by a Lubavitcher Rabbi to a small group of men, among them a practicing attorney.
The subject?
The Rabbi was explaining under what circumstances pork is considered kosher by means of Talmudic reasoning.
I was flabbergasted!
What! I exclaimed...
The Rabbi explained that according to our greatest Rabbinical Sages, if a Jew walking along sees a pack of butchered meat lying on the ground, he may consider it kosher if there is reason for him to believe that a kosher butcher was within a certain distance of his whereabouts...even if in a non-Jewish country where almost no other Jews are near.
In such a situation, the butchered pork could be considered kosher meat, brought home and enjoyed by the whole Jewish family!
To this day I still can't quite grasp the intricacies of the Rabbi's discussion...it simply made my "head spin" trying to figure it all out.
The lawyer attending the meeting, seeing my unsettled demeanor at hearing a Rabbi declare that pork could be actually kosher, turned to me and said, "Now you know why it is that Yeshiva students make the best courtroom attorneys!"