Generally, so long as it was affirmed that no impurities came in contact with the meat served in western countries (which are mostly governed by the People of the Book), then it is considered Halal. There are different schools of thought in Islam that offer different opinions on eating meat other than pork, which is unanimously forbidden. I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden for anyone who wants to eat unless it is carrion, outpoured blood and the flesh of swine, all of which is unclean (Quran Al An'am 6:145) God is certainly All-forgiving and All-merciful. But in an emergency, without the intention of transgression and rebellion, (it is not an offense for one to consume such things). The only things which are made unlawful for you are the flesh of dead animals, blood, pork and that which is not consecrated with the Name of God. But whoever is forced, neither desiring nor transgressing, there is no sin upon him. He (Allah -God- ) has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah. One example of verses from the Quran on pig consumption: Some forms of Jewish Christianity also adopted these restrictions on the consumption of pork, as is noted in the Didascalia Apostolorum. In addition, Philo of Alexandria records that during the Alexandrian riots (38) against Jewish communities in the city of Alexandria, some Alexandrian mobs also attempted to force Jews into consuming pork. According to 2 Maccabees 6:18-7:48, the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted to force Jews in his realm to consume pork as a part of his attempted restrictions on the practice of Judaism. Because Jewish dietary restrictions on pork were well-known to non-Jews, foreign attempts of oppression and assimilation of Jewish populations into Hellenistic and Roman custom often involved attempting to force Jewish populations into consuming pork. One example appears in Tacitus' Histories 5.4.1-2. The ban on the consumption of pork is repeated in Deuteronomy 14:8.ĭuring the Roman period, Jewish abstinence from pork consumption became one of the most identifiable features of Jewish religion to outsiders of the faith. Pigs should not be eaten because they don't chew their cud. According to Leviticus 11:3, animals like cows, sheep, and deer that have divided hooves and chew their cud may be consumed. The Torah (Pentateuch) contains passages in Leviticus that list the animals people are permitted to eat. Hebrew Roots Movement adherents also do not consume pork. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Church do not permit pork consumption. However, Seventh-day Adventists consider pork taboo, along with other foods forbidden by Jewish law. In Abrahamic religions, eating pig flesh is clearly forbidden by Jewish ( kashrut), Islamic ( halal) and Adventist ( kosher animals) dietary laws.Īlthough Christianity is also an Abrahamic religion, most of its adherents do not follow these aspects of Mosaic law and do consume its meat. A lost poem of Hermesianax, reported centuries later by the traveller Pausanias, reported an etiological myth of Attis destroyed by a supernatural boar to account for the fact that "in consequence of these events the Galatians who inhabit Pessinous do not touch pork". Swine were prohibited in ancient Syria and Phoenicia, and the pig and its flesh represented a taboo observed, Strabo noted, at Comana in Pontus. Pork is a food taboo among Jews, Muslims, and some Christian denominations. Restrictions on the consumption of pork for religious reasons
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