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Sefardic Panther:
I am posting these basic biological facts for the benefit of any secular Jews who are under the delusion that Toranic laws are “old superstition”.

Pork
Pigs are notorious for eating anything including their own and any other urine, excrement, dirt, maggots and decaying animal flesh. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs. A pig will eat sick and infected animals, including its own piglets that die from disease.

All the clean animals Hashem said we could eat live only on vegetation! Cows have 4 stomachs and they take over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing their food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the pig's single stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.

When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the pig flesh is full of worms.

Pigs are notorious for being infected with parasites and tapeworms because they roll around in excrement most of their lives. Pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts and eggs will be killed.

The trichinae worm is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in the intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis or gall bladder trouble.

Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef and people that consume pork products all the time tend to be overweight and unhealthy.

Pigs are so poisonous that you cannot kill them with strychnine or other poisons.

Doctors use pig fat as a good medium for growing cancer viruses.

I cannot understand why people thought pigs were a good food source. The same people who would never dream of frying slices of rat fry slices of pig all the time and a pig has the same diet as a rat!!! Doctors and scientists must stop wasting time demonising tobacco and instead make the above facts about pork known!!! I bet people who keep kosher and smoke the nargile are far healthier and live far longer than people who eat sausages and bacon for breakfast every day!!!

Shellfish
Shellfish consists of lobster, shrimp, oysters, clams, crabs, scallops, and mussels. All shellfish can be a serious health risk. Like pigs, they are scavengers that live at the bottom of the ocean and eat the waste of other animals and the waste that is pumped into the ocean.

Poisoning from shellfish can come from bacterial or viral contamination. Poisoning can also arise from heat-stable toxins derived from the food that the shellfish have been eating. Shellfish are notorious for being high in mercury, heavy metals, and industrial contaminants in the environment because they are bottom feeders that eat the ocean's waste.

There is a direct relationship between shellfish consumption and cancer. I think it is selfish that doctors don’t warn about shellfish!!!

Blood
Blood transports bodily wastes and poisons to excretory ducts in the body. Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis can be transmitted to humans by ingesting blood of diseased animals.

Kosher butchers are so hygienic that they have been exempted from many USDA regulations.

Circumcision
Bacteria flourish under foreskin! In 1947 a study of 1300 consecutive patients in a Canadian Army unit showed that being uncircumcised was associated with a 9-fold higher risk of syphilis and 3-times more gonorrhea. In Australia a study in 1992 showed that uncircumcised men had more chlamidia. Similarly in 1988 a study in Seattle of 2,800 heterosexual men reported higher syphilis and gonnorrhea in uncircumcised men. Uncircumcised men have a 12-fold higher risk of urinary tract infections. Penile cancer never occurs in men circumcised at birth.

Lisa:
Interesting.

muman613:
SP,

We must also be reminded that the reason we were commanded to not eat pork was not simply because it was an unclean animal. That is the simple understanding and sometimes people use it to justify not keeping kosher. The reasons for the mitzvot are to provide the Jewish people a way to come close to Hashem.

From http://www.askmoses.com/en/article/149,2136422/The-Mysterious-Tefillin.html


--- Quote ---The essence of the Torah is its commandments, mitzvahs in Hebrew. The word Mitzvah comes from the root meaning "to bind." Every commandment or mitzvah serves to draw us close to G-d and strengthen this connection.
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From http://www.milknhoney.co.il/torah/shabbat.html


--- Quote ---To this I will give the classic answer that the purpose of the Mitzvot is to come closer to G-d. The humanistic Mitzvot bring us closer to G-d. When we perform humanistic Mitzvot we are actually mimicking the ways of G-d. This is discussed by our Rabbis of blessed memory. Just as G-d is merciful so you should be merciful... just as G-d is slow to get angry so that is how you should be.
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It is only human to try to seek out the 'reason' for the mitzvah but we must remember that our reason is only our understanding of why we have a special command. I often don't seek to answer questions about why I do any particular command.

One more quote: http://www.torah.org/features/spirfocus/whatisamitzvah.html#


--- Quote ---
Mitzvah: Relationship with God

The greatest question of them all is "What is the purpose of life?" The Torah explains that the purpose of human existence is to achieve closeness to God. This is attained via living in accordance with the 613 commandments because each mitzvah, in its own unique way, contains the means for man to forge a relationship with God.

Judaism is not as much a religion as it is a relationship. It is only through mitzvah observance that man can build a deep, enduring, and meaningful relationship with God. The Jew knows that the key to every good relationship is the obligations that it confers. It is a given that the stronger and more intimate the relationship, the more intense the level of responsibility. A husband's commitment to his wife is naturally in a different league than his commitment to a casual acquaintance. Every mitzvah is a demonstration of the fulfillment of obligations because of the close relationship between man and God. That a mitzvah is the very process of forging the bond is contained within the very word mitzvah "commandment," closely related to the word tzavta, meaning "a connection" or "a binding." Mitzvah performance creates a connection between God, the Commander, and man, the one being commanded.

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Baruch Hashem!

Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
(Only glanced at the article), but would like to add that it's not only pork that is terrible. All non-kosher foods have a negative effect on the spiritual "body" of the person, the Tzelem, which is also connected to the physical actually.
  But about it being also disgusting, etc. I would also like to add that non-kosher beef for example also is disgusting because w/o the proper koshering method all the liquids remain in the animal. That is why their are those who say that non-kosher beef is tastier then kosher. That is b/c the piss and all the other juices aren't taken out properly (glatt-kosher Beit Yosef takes is out quickly within 72 hours I believe by salting).

Sefardic Panther:
Yes indeed muman613. I think Hashem made pork, foreskin etc. dangerous to punish Jews for not performing Mitzwoth and to compel them to perform Mitzwoth.

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