Shocking Facts About Pigs

Pig is a type of ungulate animals that long snout and nose lemper and an animal originally from Eurasia.

In some Abrahamic religious belief, pigs are not allowed to be touched (unclean) and is considered unclean for consumption. Examples are as written in the holy book of Islam the Koran. Pigs are also forbidden to be consumed in Judaism and Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Christian religion.

Pig has actually bred and consumed for thousands of years by the people of Europe and Asia mostly. Pigs are a common food in the archipelago before the arrival of Islam from the Middle East. Some tribes in Indonesia that is still running the original traditions of the ethnic Chinese-Indonesian in addition to still eat pork as a daily diet, such as parts of Bali, Toraja, Papua, Batak, Manado, etc.. In the Java community, called boars and pigs are also a common farm animals before the spread of Islam forbid pork in the archipelago.

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Dr. Murad Hoffman, Daniel S Shapiro, MD, a Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Steering, Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts, and is also an assistant professor in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts, United states there are more than 25 diseases that could plagued from pigs. Among them:

• Anthrax
• Ascaris Suum
• Botulism
• Brucella suis
• Cryptosporidiosis
• Entamoeba polecki
• Erysipelothrix shusiopathiae
• Flavobacterium group IIb-like bacteria
• Influenza
• Leptospirosis
• Pasteurella aerogenes
• Pasteurella multocida
• Pigbel
• Rabies
• Salmonella cholerae-suis
• Salmonellosis
• Sarcosporidiosis
• Scabies
• Streptococcus dysgalactiae (group L)
• Streptococcus milleri
• Streptococcus suis type 2 (group R)
• Swine vesicular disease
• Taenia solium
• Trichinella spiralis
• Yersinia enterocolitica
• Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

If God forbid something Subhanahuwata'aala, it is definitely the wisdom contained therein, such as the prohibition of eating meat Pig!

Did you know that a pig can not be slaughtered at the neck? because they do not have necks. according to its natural anatomy? For some people that if the pig was to be slaughtered and fit for human consumption the Creator would have provided it with a neck.

Consumers often complain about the smell of pork on pork urine (according to scientific research, it is because pigs praeputium often leak, so the pig urine seeps into the meat)

Pigs are animals that greed is unmatched in eating other animals. He devoured all the food that is in front of him. If the stomach is full or the food has been exhausted, he would eat his guts and again, to satisfy greed. He will not stop eating, even eating vomit. He ate all of which can be eaten in front of him. Eating any dirt in front of him, human waste, animal or plant, even eat their own dung, until there is no remaining.

Sometimes he urinated on the dirt and eat it if it was in front of him, then eat it again. He ate rotting garbage and animal feces. Pigs are the only mammals that eat the soil, eat it in large quantities and for a long time if left unchecked. People who eat pork skin will issue a bad odor.

Diseases tapeworm is a very dangerous disease that can occur due to eating pork. Worms thrive in parts of the intestine 12 fingers in the human body, and a few months it will become adult worms. The number of tapeworms can reach around "1000 with long tails between 4-10 meters", and continued to live in the human body and pull out the eggs through bowel (bowel movement).

Pork is the major cause of cancer of the anus and colon. The percentage of patients with this disease in countries whose inhabitants eat pork, increased dramatically, especially in European countries, and America, as well as in Asian countries (such as China and India). While in Islamic countries, the percentage is very low, approximately 1/1000.

"Say:" Nor I get in the revelation revealed to me, something that is forbidden for people who want to eat it, but if the food was carrion, or blood flow or PORK - because actually all that dirty - or animals slaughtered in the name of other than Allah . Whoever is in urgent situations, while he does not want it and not (also) exceeds the limit, then surely your Lord is Forgiving, Merciful. " (Surat al-An `am (6): 145)

"Each of the fanged beasts, then eating (meat) is haram" (Narrated by Muslim no.1933 of companions Abu Hurayrah Radhiallaahu 'anhu).

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