Pork is an unclean meat, it is laden with trichina worms, which causes trichinosis; a good reason to become a vegetarian.

Seventh-day Adventists do not eat pork for religious. Lev.11 verse 7 states, that swine are unclean meat, and that we should not even touch its carcass, verse 8.

H. L. Hastings said, “Swine were designed to be scavengers, to eat up filth and abominations; but when they had done their work, it was not designed that men should turn around and eat the swine.” Will the Old Book Stand, p. 92.

The garbage and muck that a pig eats is not eliminated from its body in an efficient manner. Instead it is absorbed into the swine’s flesh making it unclean and deadly for food.

The US Dept. of Agriculture grades only some classes of meat. It does not grade the flesh of pigs because pigs’ flesh is laden with various parasites.

Pork is often infested with a parasite called Trichina. Trichina is a small roundworm that causes the disease trichinosis. The larvae live in microscopic sacs, and if they are not killed through freezing and cooking will be released into the system during digestion.

Once in the digestive system the larvae become adult worms in about 1 to 2 days and continue to reproduce. They travel through the blood stream and may cause fever, nausea, joint pain, headache, muscle pain, possible damage to the central nervous system and brain, and even death.

The sever-ness of the symptoms depends on the amount of worms ingested.

According to Theodore M. Bailey, M.D., M.P.H. Peter M. Schantz, V.M.D., Ph.D. Parasitic Diseases Branch Division of Parasitic Diseases Center for Infectious Diseases, - in 1986, 51 cases of trichinosis were reported to CDC from 12 states and the District of Columbia. Among those cases in which the food item was known or suspected, pork was incriminated in 26 (61%) cases, bear meat in 14 (33%), and other meat in three (7%) cases. The web site states, “That although fewer than 100 cases per year are reported to CDC….Public health officials believe that the reported cases represent only a fraction of the total number of cases, since many of the mild or asymptomatic infections are undetected or are misdiagnosed unless they are related to more severe cases. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00001752.htm 8/21/2007

This is another good reason to become a vegetarian along with information on why you should not eat –
Red meat
Fish and seafood