Why Is Pork Forbidden?

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2 жыл бұрын

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Bibliography
Hesse, B. and Wapnish, P. 1997. Can Pig Remains Be Used for Ethnic Diagnosis in the Ancient Near East? In The Archaeology of Israel: Constructing the Past, Interpreting the Present, edited by N.A. Silberman and D.B. Small, pp. 238-270.
Hesse, B. and Wapnish, P. 1998.Pig Use and Abuse in the Ancient Levant: Ethnoreligious Boundary-Building and Swine. In Ancestors for the Pigs, edited by S. Nelson, pp. 123-135.
Price, M.D. 2021. Evolution of a Taboo: Pigs and People in the Ancient Near East. Oxford.
Sapir-Hen, L., Bar-Oz, G., Gadot, Y., and Finkelstein, I. 2013. Pig Husbandry in Iron Age Israel and Judah: New Insights Regarding the Origin of the “Taboo.” Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins 129 (1): 1-20.
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@ReligionForBreakfast
@ReligionForBreakfast 2 жыл бұрын
A week or so ago, after I filmed this episode, archaeologists announced the discovery of a whole pig skeleton in Jerusalem dating to the Iron Age. A few thoughts: 1) Evolving Cultural Element: This discovery lends credence to Max Price's central argument that the pig taboo was an evolving cultural element. Even while the pig taboo was being formulated by Jerusalem religious elites, someone was raising pigs in the heart of the Kingdom of Judah! 2) North vs. South: This discovery, though super interesting, doesn't change the fact that pig husbandry apparently was more popular in Northern urban centers like Megiddo and Beth Shean compared to urban centers in the South (Lachish and Jerusalem). 3) There's Always an Exception: But! It is still interesting to see that, even while the taboo was being formulated, people in Judah were still raising and eating pigs [in small numbers]. I see this in similar light to the fact that Asherah figurines (a Canaanite goddess) were discovered in Jerusalem too, even though the Northern Kingdom gets blamed more often for idolatry.
@lloydmunga4961
@lloydmunga4961 2 жыл бұрын
It could be a garbage disposal just as much as it could be a meal .... it doesn't say in leviticus not to associate with pigs in any way shape or form . It just says don't eat them . Have they found any skeletons of any gentiles in Jerusalem? Now that would be a topic for argument now, wouldn't it?
@joshrichards9121
@joshrichards9121 2 жыл бұрын
The Old Testament talks about all of Israels struggle with following God's commands. Its true that the North was more wayward more often, but the South had its issues too.
@carbine090909
@carbine090909 2 жыл бұрын
The Bible covers all this. In the NT, the parable of the Prodigal Son has him living with pigs, and there's a pig herder mentioned in the story about Legion. The Scriptures overflow with people breaking taboos, everywhere, and at all times, which is the point of the propitiation of Jesus.
@donaldseigel4101
@donaldseigel4101 2 жыл бұрын
I think what archaeologist are forgetting in their digs is that although Megiddo, Hazor, and Jerusalem had a majority Jewish population in the Iron age, the Pig bones and skeletons could have came from traders residing in those cities, or native Canaanites. It is well known that there were Phoenician, Philistine, and Amorite/Aramaean traders in those cities and trade networks going from Greece, Mesopotamia, and Egypt.
@marschlosser4540
@marschlosser4540 2 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget, pork products are valuable. People who produced them were likely wealthy. You don't have to eat them to make them. And, all Christian nations conquered by Islam had a thriving trade in pigs. More than likely, bones discovered are from non-Jews or apostate Jews who followed foreign gods.
@dragonmaster613
@dragonmaster613 2 жыл бұрын
A wise man once said: "some people avoid bacon for Religious reasons, I avoid Religion for bacon reasons. "
@rdjb9650
@rdjb9650 2 жыл бұрын
Love it. 😃
@WayneSmith-lo8be
@WayneSmith-lo8be 2 жыл бұрын
Very RELIGIOUSLY STATED by that wise man !!!!!!
@rdjb9650
@rdjb9650 2 жыл бұрын
@@WayneSmith-lo8be it was Mohammed, if I remember correctly.
@WayneSmith-lo8be
@WayneSmith-lo8be 2 жыл бұрын
@@rdjb9650 Mohammed, The FATHER of Government-controlled religion.
@ArkadiBolschek
@ArkadiBolschek 2 жыл бұрын
Hmm, yes, very wise.
@t900badbot
@t900badbot 9 ай бұрын
I'm a butcher. I have had people say "pork is unclean." Then buy crablegs and catfish and scallops. I just shake my head.
@rednarok
@rednarok 6 ай бұрын
whats wrong with scallops? catfish yeah i understand. crab legs why? Oysters can be very disgusting too
@t900badbot
@t900badbot 6 ай бұрын
@@rednarok all shell fish is unclean, because ita a fish without scales. Same as cat fish.
@tiffanydennis4227
@tiffanydennis4227 6 ай бұрын
All those are bottomfeeders
@t900badbot
@t900badbot 6 ай бұрын
@@tiffanydennis4227 that has nothing to do w it. Jews don't bother with pigs, as there is no secondary product in their animal husbandry. It wasn't profitable. Don't overthink it, its ALWAYS about the money. Ever as far back as we can peer into history.
@sarielizard1
@sarielizard1 6 ай бұрын
They are all disgusting honestly.
@doriskoons531
@doriskoons531 4 ай бұрын
Texas was frontier with a lot of new people moving in and settling in the 1800s. When I was working on my family’s history I noticed a pattern. People brought pigs because you could walk them and they stayed near your wagon. As settlements formed people let their small livestock wander around their houses to hunt bugs and such to eat. As settlements turned into proper towns someone would complain about pigs running loose and how unsophisticated it made the town look. The word unclean was always used. Soon an ordinance would be passed that required pigs to be fenced or forbidden in town at all. A year later the local newspaper would be filled with complaints about all the trash and rubbish around town. The pigs had been keeping the town clean. Rather than return to pigs on the loose the town would start converting to sanitary solutions used by large cities. This pattern seems to fit your description of settlement as well. Pigs don’t bother farmers and pioneers because they understand their advantages and how they fit into life. But as more people only know town life they see pigs as uncontrolled, a nuisance, wild, and finally unclean. They don’t fit their idea of what a modern town should look like so they are forced out. It isn’t really about them being unclean as they clearly clean up after the unclean habits of people. It is about image and people wanting to look prosperous. A tool toward this is ridiculing the people who still raise pigs. Eventually those people are labeled unclean, too.
@ecouturehandmades5166
@ecouturehandmades5166 4 ай бұрын
Your last sentence drove home a nail for me. I worked for environmental services (our trash handling "pretty" name). Some of the public treated us as tho we were filthy, even tho we were not making trash, just doing our jobs of safely dealing with their garbage. I still get people asking me if I am glad to be away from the garbage. Wtf! We all make trash/garbage every single day and SOMEBODY has to handle it. It's a very necessary job and the public should be more than grateful that someone is willing to touch their waste and safely deal with it to PROTECT the public from all sorts of pathogens.
@ania7930
@ania7930 3 ай бұрын
@@ecouturehandmades5166 Seriously! Trash disposal and sanitation is a backbone of any city or town. I get that the society perceives jobs related to trash as low requirement jobs, but many jobs are like that and few are as essential.
@user-cc1ej9yr5p
@user-cc1ej9yr5p 2 ай бұрын
So social status outweighs the need for a good protein source?
@ania7930
@ania7930 2 ай бұрын
@@user-cc1ej9yr5p We are highly social species, so as long as this protein source was not essential to survival, I don't see why it couldn't be foregone in the name of social status. After all it translates to stuff like availability of mates and signaled group belonging. Pretty vital stuff :)
@dinotopher770
@dinotopher770 2 ай бұрын
It's like complaining the garbage man looks too much ..like a garbage man.
@vicsar
@vicsar 4 ай бұрын
I always wondered about this. I knew there was more to it than just "because God said so" or "because pigs are dirty." I just never thought I would find such a great and objective explanation of it. Thanks.
@Syncrotron9001
@Syncrotron9001 4 ай бұрын
They are as intelligent as dogs or a 3 yr old human, seems wrong to eat a self aware creature
@vicsar
@vicsar 4 ай бұрын
@@Syncrotron9001 Yeah... I still eat them, and other animals, but I try to keep it as low as posible.
@DMSBrian24
@DMSBrian24 3 ай бұрын
​@@Syncrotron9001 3 year old kids are self-aware and can talk, adult pigs don't even recognize themselves in a mirror, but regardless this is a pointless argument. Also, eating dogs is totally fine too, just not socially accepted in our culture due to the role they play in our society.
@Syncrotron9001
@Syncrotron9001 3 ай бұрын
@@DMSBrian24 BEATNGU
@vicsar
@vicsar 3 ай бұрын
@@DMSBrian24 Ditto.
@ngauruhoezodiac3143
@ngauruhoezodiac3143 2 жыл бұрын
A friend bought a piglet with the intention of fattening it for a Christmas feast. However it was so lovable that he didn't have the heart to slaughter it. He used to go to the pub and the pig would wait patiently outside. When he came out he had a bottle of beer for the pig.
@Wasserkaktus
@Wasserkaktus Жыл бұрын
It's why I think if people abstain from pork, it's out of RESPECT for pigs for their remarkable intelligence and emotional depth, NOT because of disdain for pigs.
@coryaw95
@coryaw95 Жыл бұрын
@@Wasserkaktus oh yeah, those sows are so empathetic that they chronically suffocate their piglets and have to be crated. How complex
@Wasserkaktus
@Wasserkaktus Жыл бұрын
@@coryaw95 Uh, your comment PROVES how emotionally complex they are. The mothers get so incredibly stressed out in the horrid conditions they are often in, they savage their piglets due to intense trauma and stress.
@coryaw95
@coryaw95 Жыл бұрын
@@Wasserkaktus Except this doesn't only happen on commercial farms. It's endemic to pig rearing in general.
@Wasserkaktus
@Wasserkaktus Жыл бұрын
@@coryaw95 And you don't think that maybe all pig farming is extremely stressful for pigs? Do you honestly think such complex animals enjoy that kind of environment?
@madianantar7842
@madianantar7842 Жыл бұрын
14:03 i’m lebanese and we don’t eat a lot of pork, because pigs are kinda expensive to raise here. See, what this video failed to mention is that pigs consume an oceanic amount of water as oppose to say sheep or goats. I believe this the main reason why they’re not that popular in the levant
@susanaaragorn8606
@susanaaragorn8606 9 ай бұрын
And probably there was a climate change from more humid to dry co ditions around that time.
@magdlynstrouble2036
@magdlynstrouble2036 9 ай бұрын
Ah, thats why there was that handy herd of pigs on the Gadarene shores of the Sea of Galilee for Jesus to cast demons into. Also, Israel is wetter and much more fertile than Judah. Judah was envious of its fertility.
@madianantar7842
@madianantar7842 9 ай бұрын
@@magdlynstrouble2036 what are you talking about? Lol 😂
@user-un8tv1pp8m
@user-un8tv1pp8m 8 ай бұрын
Good idea, but does not explain how the amount of pig bones in the middens swerves down so severely in a rather short time - that did not see too much climate change reducing water availbility.
@sld1776
@sld1776 7 ай бұрын
I think this is the main reason. In societies where there's a lot of water, pork is the most valued meat.
@Laszlo34
@Laszlo34 4 ай бұрын
To quote the movie Pulp Fiction: Vincent: "Bacon tastes _good_ , pork chops taste _good_ ." Jules: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy [things]." Thanks for the video!
@THE-zv7vj
@THE-zv7vj 4 ай бұрын
thank you for not eating my pork Jules..
@mhk9131
@mhk9131 13 күн бұрын
“Pigs eat human excrement and trash”, I think the video should have ended there 😂
@17ftd
@17ftd Жыл бұрын
This video really reflecting of my experience. I always build my minecraft farm with no pigs because they offer only meat while other animals gives you leather, feather etc and beef steak fill you up the most.
@lunix3259
@lunix3259 Жыл бұрын
Absolute chad comment
@Ch-ew9tm
@Ch-ew9tm Жыл бұрын
They are easier to breed tho. A Carrot or potato farmland gives you 2-4 carrots/potatoes. A Wheat-field gives 1-2 Wheat.
@Ming1975
@Ming1975 Жыл бұрын
I remember playing a game where pigs are use for leather and sausages.
@17ftd
@17ftd Жыл бұрын
@@Ch-ew9tm most of my play I never found potato or carrot until I am pretty much established by wheat farm and cow. I just live on fish and apple starting
@gypsyg9612
@gypsyg9612 Жыл бұрын
@ming Knights and Merchants? Used to love that game. One of my favorites
@c.j.nyssen6987
@c.j.nyssen6987 Жыл бұрын
You should also consider the difficulties of raising pigs. Pigs don't sweat, so they require large amounts of water to regulate their body temperature by drinking it and wallowing in bodies of water or mud. Without a stable source of water, raising pigs comes at the expense of other creatures (humans included) who also need water to survive. I think it would be interesting to compare the weather patterns and environmental conditions around the times when the numbers of people raising and consuming pigs dropped off.
@copic8241
@copic8241 Жыл бұрын
What a very interesting point you raise.
@lovelydonkey
@lovelydonkey Жыл бұрын
Pigs don't produce milk or wool. So for the water resource they use they are not a good choice as live stock
@omnigar9611
@omnigar9611 Жыл бұрын
All you points just prove people want to be where they want regardless of environmental considerations. Smart people put things where they prosper best, not where it's convenient
@beverlycharles6534
@beverlycharles6534 Жыл бұрын
Agree with this. I always figured it strictly was inability to refrigerate resulting in illness of those who ate pork, but certainly as in vid - cost of pig care versus yield is a major factor. Videographer did a great job bringing up several factors.
@sugar2943
@sugar2943 Жыл бұрын
Raising pig is not as difficult as you make it seem. I raised two from piglets to full adults and they had no problem drinking water from a aqua table. Very smart animals that one can raise right and still be useful.
@jeremysipes44
@jeremysipes44 5 ай бұрын
I take the Leviticus dietary laws more as food warning labels."If you eat this and get sick don't come crying to me."😅
@niemand9362
@niemand9362 Ай бұрын
I like this. God comes off as sassy and petty. I love it.
@bawbawl
@bawbawl Ай бұрын
As it should be taken. Dietry guidelines
@WebShaman01
@WebShaman01 27 күн бұрын
@@niemand9362 Also, see Old Testament.
@Barbara-jq2se
@Barbara-jq2se 25 күн бұрын
Re:comment: 👆Don’t be a mocker about what God’s letting you know about the clean vs. unclean foods. This is a rather serious topic. Anyone who becomes a mocker will sadly have to suffer the consequences or quickly smarten up from their own ignorance! He strongly wants you to be truly healthy in as many areas as possible so please be careful with your words & foods you “think” are just fine for eating. Jesus Christ wouldn’t be warning us if there wasn’t a really valid reason for it. Think about that. 🤔
@LoafLobster
@LoafLobster 25 күн бұрын
@@Barbara-jq2se Why should we take the knowledge of an ancient man and use it for the basis of modern health guidelines and food safety? I’ve almost studied nothing about pigs but I probably know 4x more than Jesus ever knew about swine or food safety. Please cite a source that isn’t a law book/ fanfiction/ fairytale/ fantasy novel.
@chrisdewhurst3892
@chrisdewhurst3892 4 ай бұрын
Really appreciate your lucidity and in-depth knowledge, keep up the good work!
@Ganondorfdude11
@Ganondorfdude11 2 жыл бұрын
A cat looks down on you, a dog looks up to you. A pig sees you as an equal.
@thomasparis5016
@thomasparis5016 2 жыл бұрын
I like that.
@kidkous
@kidkous 2 жыл бұрын
@@paddyotterness All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
@TechBearSeattle
@TechBearSeattle 2 жыл бұрын
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
@Salsmachev
@Salsmachev 2 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter which way the mimic octopus looks at you, you won't see it coming anyway.
@Draganism
@Draganism 2 жыл бұрын
Says a lot about people.
@Theprofessorator
@Theprofessorator 2 жыл бұрын
Reiligion for breakfast, but no bacon. :'(
@rembrandt972ify
@rembrandt972ify 2 жыл бұрын
Bacon is always justified.
@KingshukMonsur
@KingshukMonsur 2 жыл бұрын
why not doggo
@FactStorm
@FactStorm 2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@marschlosser4540
@marschlosser4540 2 жыл бұрын
Ah, but smoked beef, smoked, chicken and duck.
@mr.x5495
@mr.x5495 2 жыл бұрын
@@Smith-cd3yhonly idiots with iphones know anything ?
@elessartelcontar9415
@elessartelcontar9415 2 ай бұрын
During the Great Depression, pork was called "city chicken" and it was popular as it was not expensive.
@dennisweidner288
@dennisweidner288 4 ай бұрын
Very informed and well-presented explanation. The pork prohibition is something I have always wondered about.
@Infotainment-cb6cy
@Infotainment-cb6cy 4 ай бұрын
Have you truly? wasn't it obvious that religion is merely a fairy tale cause barbarians are not smart enough to form a society without punishment of hellfire?
@selahsolomon9216
@selahsolomon9216 4 ай бұрын
They have ALOT of parasites. Tap worm comes from pigs. They carry diseases.
@Potencyfunction
@Potencyfunction 3 ай бұрын
The pork is not prohibited, is just that some people can think in depth before they take an action for eating a dirty animal.
@keatonhayes1900
@keatonhayes1900 Ай бұрын
@@Potencyfunctionlike, every animal? Go vegan, then.
@mitchelmodine9197
@mitchelmodine9197 2 жыл бұрын
"Thou shalt not eat the pig, for it will give you diarrhea." Funniest thing I've heard this week.
@GravesRWFiA
@GravesRWFiA 2 жыл бұрын
you could say the same ting about my wife's cooking and she doesn't eat pork!
@lufhopespeacefully2037
@lufhopespeacefully2037 2 жыл бұрын
do u read quran mitch
@leonamoonslasher7070
@leonamoonslasher7070 2 жыл бұрын
Same can be happend if you eat other red meats lol
@aaronsirkman8375
@aaronsirkman8375 2 жыл бұрын
@@lufhopespeacefully2037 Why are you going through the comments asking people if they read the Quran? What's the follow-up question you want to ask?
@Puppythuppa
@Puppythuppa 2 жыл бұрын
he wants to deceive people into his 7th century Pagan CULT Islam.! Ignorant human souls who DO NOT KNOW THEIR MESSIAH "YESHUA/JESUS CHRIST THE LORD."🤔🤗🤣🕎♎
@dougkennedy4906
@dougkennedy4906 2 жыл бұрын
In the words of Homer Simpson... " Some of us eat pork some don't, some of us eat beef, some don't. But everyone likes chicken, we have that in common. So let's drop it." Or something to that effect.
@Laittth
@Laittth 2 жыл бұрын
He forgot that vegans exist
@dougkennedy4906
@dougkennedy4906 2 жыл бұрын
@@Laittth I have never seen a cave painting of a salad.
@magillanz
@magillanz 2 жыл бұрын
chicken is my favourite vegetable
@PC4USE1
@PC4USE1 2 жыл бұрын
@@dougkennedy4906 Golden reply-you win my comment of the day award.
@wonderingAroundtoNoWhere
@wonderingAroundtoNoWhere 2 жыл бұрын
@@dougkennedy4906 you nearly killed me with this reply i am still laughing thanks
@KevBear715
@KevBear715 4 ай бұрын
Fascinating and informative! Thank you!
@53rodj
@53rodj 4 ай бұрын
This was explained so well I could understand it easily. Wonderful.
@nicholasyoung3786
@nicholasyoung3786 2 жыл бұрын
The fact that this brilliant man used the glowing eyes meme completes me
@Bacopa68
@Bacopa68 2 жыл бұрын
Best use of it ever is in that screenshot of Gary Plauche in Baton Rouge.
@lufhopespeacefully2037
@lufhopespeacefully2037 2 жыл бұрын
do u read quran nic
@prettylights8873
@prettylights8873 2 жыл бұрын
Ok ni
@michaelcrockis7679
@michaelcrockis7679 2 жыл бұрын
@@Smith-cd3yh Pigs aren't and the ancient Israelites didn't know anything. There were even hooved carnivores at one time on the Earth.
@omarlittle-hales8237
@omarlittle-hales8237 2 жыл бұрын
Shalom, Salam, Peace. Quran [Last Testament] “He has forbidden you only dead animals, and blood, and the swine, and that which is slaughtered as a sacrifice for other than God.” (Quran 2:173) Torah [Old Testament] Also In The Gospel [New Testament] (Lev. 11:7-8) as . The approved animals "chew the cud," which is another way of saying they are ruminants that eat grass. Pigs "cheweth not the cud" . They eat calorie-
@johncorrall1739
@johncorrall1739 Жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that the cannibals of New Guinea called human flesh”long pig”. My grandad served in the RAF in WW2,many planes returning from raids would be badly shot up,there were fires on the bombers,it was far from rare for a gunner to burn to death. My grandad couldn’t touch pork for years after the war,the smell was exactly the same as burnt human flesh.
@mysticonthehill
@mysticonthehill Жыл бұрын
I totally can understand that. Among North American Indians bear was considered to have an uncanny resemblance to human beings when butchered and thus a large number of rituals sprung up around its hunting to delineate it as something distinct.
@johncorrall1739
@johncorrall1739 Жыл бұрын
@@mysticonthehill Humans,pigs and bears are all omnivores. Coincidence? Maybe.
@chickenlover657
@chickenlover657 Жыл бұрын
So what you're saying is that roasted humans smell yummy?
@johncorrall1739
@johncorrall1739 Жыл бұрын
@@chickenlover657 Yup. I suspect we taste good too.
@blanket4763
@blanket4763 Жыл бұрын
My great uncle had a similar experience, as he served in the pacific theater as well. He didn’t allow bacon or ham in his home because it smelled exactly like piles of bodies being burned
@petepal55
@petepal55 4 ай бұрын
That was literally enlightening, thank you.
@Infotainment-cb6cy
@Infotainment-cb6cy 4 ай бұрын
Brightened your day, huh? (*chuckles*)
@bkfishing5650
@bkfishing5650 4 ай бұрын
Literally😂
@JoeZUGOOLA
@JoeZUGOOLA 28 күн бұрын
Did your phone light get brighter? 😂
@thermonuclearwarhead
@thermonuclearwarhead 4 ай бұрын
So reading that book, and my first video from you, impressed.
@samuelstepp2890
@samuelstepp2890 2 жыл бұрын
This might be a bit too controversial and you've touched on elements of this in your "The Most Painful Religious Rituals" video but I was wondering if you could do a video on the origins and practice of religious male circumcision. Specifically among Jews and Muslims. Thanks. I enjoy your videos and found this one fascinating.
@babyruthless9670
@babyruthless9670 2 жыл бұрын
Let's get this comment to the top!
@memezoffuckery3207
@memezoffuckery3207 2 жыл бұрын
The practice of circumcision came from Egypt, the Jewish culture/ethnicity merged from one of Egypt’s provinces, when the Abrahamic beliefs (of Judaism and Christianity) spread throughout the Rome Empire and collapsed, a certain merchant a couple of centuries later (after the Western Roman collapsed) created a cult following with a new religion, borrowing a lot of aspects from the Abrahamic belief to instill upon he’s new mythology.
@hoperules8874
@hoperules8874 2 жыл бұрын
It is probably based off of long-term observations by people that shared a group bathroom & baths...Consequences might be slow, but consequences that are consistent, they speak volumes. Lack of "science" doesn't mean the consequential observations were wrong.
@ameenafattah1415
@ameenafattah1415 2 жыл бұрын
Bump! I am really interested in this as well.
@Magnulus76
@Magnulus76 2 жыл бұрын
@@memezoffuckery3207 Doesn't the story of Abraham and Moses sort of hint at this notion? The Torah portrays it as being received directly as a covenant from God. Not that different from the Egyptian belief, it would be the sign of being a "chosen people" in the Egyptians mind, perhaps? It would be a bit like how Vietnamese embraced Chinese customs, despite being distinct peoples.
@heeseunglee6605
@heeseunglee6605 2 жыл бұрын
I just imagine something similar to Scottish tradition of kilt. Jewish people might’ve had a tradition of not eating pigs but it wasn’t a serious doctrine. But as they were harassed by foreigners, they started to latch on to their tradition, making it their identity, and evolving into a complete taboo of pork.
@Menzobarrenza
@Menzobarrenza 2 жыл бұрын
Well, if you read the Torah, pigs weren't singled out as particularly bad. They were just forbidden in the exact same way as camels, rabbits, and shellfish. Seeing pigs as particularly bad is a later development, but their prohibition is not, judging by the text.
@pansepot1490
@pansepot1490 2 жыл бұрын
@@Menzobarrenza “On the basis of a variety of arguments, modern scholars generally see the completed Torah as a product of the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire (probably 450-350 BCE),[9][10] although some would place its composition in the Hellenistic period (333-164 BCE).[13]” Wikipedia The text is very late compared to the thousands of years BCE the video covers.
@Menzobarrenza
@Menzobarrenza 2 жыл бұрын
@@pansepot1490 Awesome of you to provide a source. Thanks. Very important distinction, though: "The completed Torah" is a VERY specific compilation of all 5 books of the Torah. It really has no bearing on wether or not the forbiddance of the assorted animals was simultaneous or not. Each of the 5 individual books of the Torah is obviously going to be older than a compilation of all 5 of them. Even more so for the individual narratives therein.
@heeseunglee6605
@heeseunglee6605 2 жыл бұрын
@@Menzobarrenza Now I wonder why they banned camels and rabbits. My first thought is maybe Jewish people observe people dying of protein shock, but as this video points out, you cannot use modern medical facts to describe the historical taboo.
@Menzobarrenza
@Menzobarrenza 2 жыл бұрын
@@heeseunglee6605 I can't speak for any anthropological reasons, but the theological motivation is very simple. In the narrative, YHWH explicitly states that He intends to make the Jews noticeably distinct from all other peoples ("holy" literally means "set apart"), in order for the Jews to be able to serve as reminder of YHWH to the other nations. Ergo, it really is as simple as the Jews just being made intentionally different to everybody else. There is nothing special about the animals themselves. At least, this is what it looks like if you just read the text itself.
@thebootlegknitter
@thebootlegknitter 2 ай бұрын
Just heard about your channel because of Esoterica. Love it!!
@paulbevington4921
@paulbevington4921 5 ай бұрын
As an historian, I am surprised that the major issue was not mentioned...on a battlefield the dead and wounded would become dinner for swine, so family searching for their loved ones after a battle might find porky munching on their loved one...the thought of eating that pig would be like cannibalism
@dajjukunrama5695
@dajjukunrama5695 4 ай бұрын
The answer is confinement, your point makes no sense
@mad_max21
@mad_max21 4 ай бұрын
And as we all know, battlefields don't exist everywhere else in the world. Only the Levant have battlefields. What a brilliant discovery you've made there.
@annepoitrineau5650
@annepoitrineau5650 2 күн бұрын
@@dajjukunrama5695 If a country is being ravaged by war, confinement of the pigs is not easy to enforce.
@annepoitrineau5650
@annepoitrineau5650 2 күн бұрын
@@mad_max21 Other countries, other geographies. And maybe the other cultures did not care so much.
@daisy13joyce
@daisy13joyce 2 жыл бұрын
I used to have a smallholding many years ago , and among the livestock was a Large white pig called Lucy. As the breed name implies they are large, but she was a sweet natured creature who would ''talk'' to everyone. She was clean in her habits, her stye was large and she always kept the latrine end clear of her bed of straw. Pigs are not necessarily all unclean, its only man who keeps them in captivity who endorses that, left to themselves they are just the same as other animals.
@MyHusbands
@MyHusbands Жыл бұрын
Let your pig free in the wild. And see her after a month.
@farooqmian9344
@farooqmian9344 Жыл бұрын
its like a rottweiler when raised by a family acts like a labrador. but thats not their natural aura.
@siamzero9480
@siamzero9480 Жыл бұрын
@@MyHusbands Nothing extraordinary will happen, they'll just burrow in the ground to search for roots and grub.
@SMASH-xi7go
@SMASH-xi7go Жыл бұрын
@@MyHusbands you go out into the wild for a few days (no modern equipment) and see what happens
@ContantContact
@ContantContact Жыл бұрын
Pigs are unclean because of what they eat. And that includes about everything. Ant that explains why they are hotbeds for trichinosis infection. I got an antipathy to pork while a teen ager and reading the 1942 Yearbook of Agriculture which is on animal disease. That book cured me from pork. Cloven hooved cud chewing animals also can get sick, but they generally look very sick and die. And they do NOT naturally get trichinosis. Pigs don't live the same way. There is no comparison.
@brad4908
@brad4908 2 жыл бұрын
Dude, you have a lovely way of presenting material, and telling history, without winding people up or getting hooked on dogma. Fantastic! Long may you continue.
@comments.are.turned.off...
@comments.are.turned.off... 2 жыл бұрын
Get off him. He's mine!!!
@jeep19
@jeep19 2 жыл бұрын
And he's cute too 😍😍😉
@rayhilchey6706
@rayhilchey6706 4 ай бұрын
I found this an excellent synopsis of archeologic and textual research on the subject. It informed me on new information from recent evidence. Well researched, well written and well presented. Thank you
@sandro2778
@sandro2778 2 ай бұрын
Very interesting and informative video, worth watching. Thank you.
@ryanhollist3950
@ryanhollist3950 2 жыл бұрын
This feels like a reverse version of the lobster going from a garbage food (if even considered edible at all) to being among the the highest tier of decadence.
@drainmonkeys385
@drainmonkeys385 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing. Because it’s the best
@finolacat8355
@finolacat8355 2 жыл бұрын
Well said, I think oysters underwent a similar journey. :)
@bccsivxx-xxivvii
@bccsivxx-xxivvii 2 жыл бұрын
@@finolacat8355 Yea, poor man's clam.
@alanchoichang8336
@alanchoichang8336 2 жыл бұрын
and lobsters arent even all that great...
@frankieamsden7918
@frankieamsden7918 2 жыл бұрын
Lobster is another food prohibited for kosher.
@madhavdeval
@madhavdeval 2 жыл бұрын
I'd definitely love to see the evolution of the image of pigs in Hinduism- considering they were at least holy enough for a supreme god to have taken avatar as a pig, when did they reach their modern image as unclean
@insaneweasel1
@insaneweasel1 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Islam had influence on this?
@sylvereon
@sylvereon 2 жыл бұрын
@@insaneweasel1 it’s entirely possible, especially with the effect Islam has on South Asia
@kshatrapavan
@kshatrapavan 2 жыл бұрын
The dharmashāstras make a distinction between wild and domesticated pigs. Varāhas i.e. wild pigs are considered relatively clean and can also be hunted and eaten (depending on one's varna) while Vidvarāhas i.e. village-pigs are deemed unclean. Wild pigs are still hunted and eaten in parts of India by some otherwise mainstream traditional Hindus. Furthermore, in Hinduism, reverence, association with cleanliness and holiness don't always go together. For example, Vishnu also takes form of a fish and a lion (lion-man), but both their flesh is considered unclean in the shāstras. While dogs are considered ritually unclean, they are still revered as vehicle of Bhairava, but eating their flesh is considered to be among the lowliest of acts.
@caraxes_noodleboi
@caraxes_noodleboi 2 жыл бұрын
@@kshatrapavan Yes you are correct. But pigs are considered forbidden to eat by general Hindu population and boars aren't available either. So Hindus more or less completely avoid pig/pig like animal meat.
@kshatrapavan
@kshatrapavan 2 жыл бұрын
@@caraxes_noodleboi Yes. Abolition of Kshatriya princely states, deforestation and urbanization has made hunting a thing of the past. This has burred the distinction between Varāha (wild-boar) and Vidvarāha (village-pig) making Hindus avoidant of pork in general.
@cecileroy557
@cecileroy557 4 ай бұрын
This subject is fascinating - thanks!!!
@wong4728
@wong4728 4 ай бұрын
This is original and excellent presentation. Love it.
@madddog7
@madddog7 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think I heard this mentioned: pigs are _very_ good at upturning / 'tilling' fields.
@johnbrereton5229
@johnbrereton5229 2 жыл бұрын
Very true maddog, if you have a piece of rough land covered in thorn bushes and stinging nettles, just put you pigs on it and they will eat all the plants and till the soil so it looks like a ploughed field, great if you want to plant crops there.
@janacagle2141
@janacagle2141 2 жыл бұрын
@@johnbrereton5229 pigs would be detrimental to the farming which is prized in biblical times, such as olives, grapes, and wheat, and oats.
@eleethtahgra7182
@eleethtahgra7182 2 жыл бұрын
Until it start messing with the farm. But yeah, its good for tilling the ground....and the feces would act as fertilizer as well.
@johnbrereton5229
@johnbrereton5229 2 жыл бұрын
@@eleethtahgra7182 Yes indeed, you would certainly need to put a fence of some sort around them, or they would wreak havoc across the farm 🐷
@johnbrereton5229
@johnbrereton5229 2 жыл бұрын
@@janacagle2141 Olives, grapes, wheats and oats are still prized today, but as long as the pigs are restricted to a part of the land you want cleared and cultivated, they would do an excellent job. Once their work is done, you can move them elsewhere and plant any of the crops you mentioned or more.
@pokerface7840
@pokerface7840 2 жыл бұрын
I wonder if the fact that the pig is an omnivore had anything to do with it (since all carnivores are prohibited) .Also pigs need a lot of water and mud to regulate their temperature because of the lack of sweat glands, I wonder how that would have played out in a region where water supplies were already beginning to dwindle.
@FelonyVideos
@FelonyVideos 2 жыл бұрын
I raised a pig for the county fair. They don't need water and mud at all to prosper. They enjoy it, but it's not necessary. Also, they are smarter than dogs.
@MariaLopez-hc2nm
@MariaLopez-hc2nm 2 жыл бұрын
@@FelonyVideos Really 😃??
@FelonyVideos
@FelonyVideos 2 жыл бұрын
@@MariaLopez-hc2nm Yes, really. 👍
@Know26874
@Know26874 2 жыл бұрын
It's because they're bottom feeder they eat anything
@timq6224
@timq6224 2 жыл бұрын
@@Know26874 basically the mollusk of the overworld...
@countrywinggroupofcompanie6182
@countrywinggroupofcompanie6182 4 ай бұрын
Very educative, thanks for the handwork.
@AgentM3tallion
@AgentM3tallion 4 ай бұрын
I keep pigs in my home. Got Porky laying right here beside me in her big fluffy bed right now. They're better than dogs, incredibly intelligent. Anything a dog can do, a pig can do better, in my experience. Shame our dog doesn't seem to like them... Got a 500lber, a 300lber and a 120lber. One mulehoof (non cloven hoof) a Kune Kune and a mini-pig hybrid that funily enough is the biggest of them. Fully litterbox trained as well.
@festina_lente7655
@festina_lente7655 2 ай бұрын
Those poor things.🤦
@jemeilliamurfin1345
@jemeilliamurfin1345 21 күн бұрын
so like pets? thats pretty cool
@annepoitrineau5650
@annepoitrineau5650 2 күн бұрын
@@festina_lente7655 The pigs I have seen to be kept as pets are very happy and jolly. Believe me, when a pig is miffed, he/she will let you know, and they are very strong!!
@horatiohuffnagel7978
@horatiohuffnagel7978 Сағат бұрын
Does it go to the bathroom on your floor? A dog will hold it until it goes outside. At least if you know how to train dogs. People that let their dogs go inside are morons and shouldn't have pets.
@annepoitrineau5650
@annepoitrineau5650 41 минут бұрын
@@horatiohuffnagel7978 The person I knew who had pigs and wild boars in her home had trained them to use a litter box at night, but use a litter box at night or when the weather was very bad (She lives in the French Massif Central, up in the mountsins and it can get absolutely perishing).
@bitmaster-781
@bitmaster-781 6 ай бұрын
Life style conflicts. My family was a rice farmer. Cow, Goat and Sheep like to eat rice, rice is delicious grass for them. Pork, Chicken and Duck are rise by rice farmer because they don't eat rice and they like to eat rice bran and rice grain (they eat clean food not dirty) which we have a lot of it and can store for years after dry by sun. But we also rise a few Cows and Buffaloes for labor use so we don't lack leather. For clothing, They're Linen, Cotton even Silk.
@darlenelarochelle4011
@darlenelarochelle4011 4 ай бұрын
Thats a good life you have. Live long and prosper. 😊
@erichstocker8358
@erichstocker8358 3 ай бұрын
Very practical solutions
@ArkadiBolschek
@ArkadiBolschek 2 жыл бұрын
Leviticus: you shall not eat of the pig, for it is an unclean beast. Obelix: these hebrews are crazy.
@mikloscsuvar6097
@mikloscsuvar6097 2 жыл бұрын
Haha. He eat always boar, not pig.
@ArkadiBolschek
@ArkadiBolschek 2 жыл бұрын
@@mikloscsuvar6097 As far as Leviticus is concerned, boars count as pigs.
@alessandrodelogu7931
@alessandrodelogu7931 2 жыл бұрын
There is really a chapter of "Asterix" where he and Obelix travel to Judaea, and Obelix argues about pork (boar in this case) with a Jew.
@heeseunglee6605
@heeseunglee6605 2 жыл бұрын
Makes me wanna reread the whole series!
@ArkadiBolschek
@ArkadiBolschek 2 жыл бұрын
@@alessandrodelogu7931 Asterix and the Black Gold! Getafix sends them to the Middle East to get 'rock oil' for the magic potion!
@ahmetgunay91
@ahmetgunay91 3 ай бұрын
Out of context, but there was a saying in Turkiye for hypocritical religious people that goes like this: “We don’t eat pig because it's haram, but we eat haram like pigs.”
@George10767
@George10767 4 ай бұрын
Before the advent of refrigerators it was considered (in some countries) that pig meat would decay relatively quickly. In France, for example, there may still exist specialised pork butchers (bouchers porcins)
@RelativelyBest
@RelativelyBest Жыл бұрын
There's a scene in The Longships by Frans G. Bengtsson where the main characters, a bunch of vikings, fish up a strange dark-skinned man who jumped from another ship. They can't understand what he's saying but learn that he won't row on Saturdays and refuses to eat pork, which confuses them. One of the vikings who has a knack for language spends some time speaking with him and report that he's an escaped slave and a "Jew", whatever that is. One of the others asks why he won't eat pork and the first guy says: "It seems that makes his god angry." They ask why and he goes: "I don't know. Maybe his god wants all the pork for himself?" The vikings consider this for a moment and conclude that it's a good thing their own gods don't meddle in such things.
@owlthepirate5997
@owlthepirate5997 Жыл бұрын
Awsome story 😄 The vikings were very smart people, lol.
@RelativelyBest
@RelativelyBest Жыл бұрын
@@owlthepirate5997 They actually seem to have been a very straightforward no-nonsense type of people who valued common sense.
@magdlynstrouble2036
@magdlynstrouble2036 9 ай бұрын
Ugh, I hate that kind of ignorant religious "humor." The whole point was, "Yahweh" said pig was unclean and NOT fit for sacrifice or consumption. The priests ate the sacrifices. Pig meat was considered low class food, and the priests were the top echelon of society.
@recoveringsoul755
@recoveringsoul755 5 ай бұрын
Pigs don't sweat. They keep every toxin they ever consume in their flesh. Parasites, and vaccines. They can eat a human and fully digest the corpse except for the teeth. Pigs can till the ground and clean up garbage, plant trimmings, and pigskin can be used for some things. I haven't been able to find any examples of Jesus himself ever putting any animal flesh into his own mouth. Not even fish. He may feed others, but it seems like he himself only ate water, wine, fruit, figs, olives, bread, oil. Maybe milk & honey. Bread back then had seeds and nuts, fruits in it and was more like a meal.
@dthomas9230
@dthomas9230 4 ай бұрын
@@magdlynstrouble2036 Any religious humor is fine in my book as the only ignorance is believing in sky fairies.
@daniele7989
@daniele7989 2 жыл бұрын
All of this stuff still makes sense biblically: A lot of the purity laws were intended to differentiate the Israelites from their pagan neighbors, so that they wouldn't go on engaging in the same idolatry as their neighbors (which they still did obvs). Also everyone knows that the Kingdom of Israel was way more into worshipping pagan gods throughout history, right up until Assyria destroyed them, so it makes sense that, if the bible was written by mostly folks from the southern kingdom, the pork taboo would be included with the general wickedness of the Northern kingdom
@marschlosser4540
@marschlosser4540 2 жыл бұрын
Your comment is a breath of fresh air. thank you!
@noahway13
@noahway13 2 жыл бұрын
Israelites worshipped idols because they saw no difference in results , because there is no difference. It is all mythology.
@Maples01
@Maples01 2 жыл бұрын
@@noahway13 There are no atheists in foxholes
@noahway13
@noahway13 2 жыл бұрын
@@Maples01 You know how many men died in foxhole praying to a god? Praying to your GOD? (millions) Praying people died in same numbers as non believers.. What you think is a sound argument is quite ignorant
@lewcy
@lewcy 2 жыл бұрын
@@noahway13 people who live just lives according to god tend to have better results than their amoral counterparts
@slowbro1337
@slowbro1337 3 ай бұрын
Most foods that are taboo were ones that could make you sick from parasites or bacteria. Tapeworms in pork or toxins in shellfish.
@karlscher5170
@karlscher5170 2 ай бұрын
Debunked. It's the need of Jevvs and MusIims to hate on outsiders.
@germanshepherd6638
@germanshepherd6638 2 күн бұрын
lol, yes because avian bird flu , hand mouth disease, bovine tape worm, fish tapeworm , rat lungs, and mad cow disease come from pigs 😂😂😂
@karlscher5170
@karlscher5170 2 күн бұрын
Are you a coping Jevv or a coping musIim?
@autarchprinceps
@autarchprinceps 4 ай бұрын
I've been to a major historic museum that recreated a whole area to a historic state on a multi km² area. The one thing about historic diseases in animals I learned there, is the one animal that was always kept separate, from the human homes, which often were directly above the stable in those times, as well as from all other animals, because they were just so disease ridden, was sheep. They litterally hat exhibits about it. There were specific buildings to hold the sheep, and only they were outside the town. Pigs on the other hand, not so much. So I also doubt that diseases was the primary reason.
@jcfretts
@jcfretts 2 жыл бұрын
I find the dynamic of anti-urban themes in parts of the Old Testament, or nomad vs. farmer, to be fascinating. From this video, I take away that pigs were most popular in both cities and/or settled agriculture, but less suitable for nomadic life or small villages. Two similar but different dichotomies that -to me - seem to fit with other themes in the Bible.
@omarlittle-hales8237
@omarlittle-hales8237 2 жыл бұрын
The approved animals "chew the cud," which is another way of saying they are ruminants that eat grass. Pigs "cheweth not the cud" because they possess simple guts, unable to digest cellulose. They eat calorie-dense foods, not only nuts and grains but also less salubrious items such as carrion, human corpses and feces.
@Nerukenshi1233
@Nerukenshi1233 2 жыл бұрын
Theres also the "royal people" vs "common people" dynamic found in the Tzitzit and many other mitzvot.
@martavdz4972
@martavdz4972 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, it might have been an effort to maintain the values especially found in nomadic cultures, like independence, out-of-the-box thinking, relying on your friends and family rather than on a rigid social system etc. Reminding Israelites over and over that their god is not a god of accumulating stationary wealth helped them keep their smarts and flexibility. I liked the short video "Bombino - story of Nomad" where a Touareg proudly presents these nomadic values. Seemed to me it had a sort of Torah/Old Testament vibe to it 😃
@mathewfinch
@mathewfinch 10 ай бұрын
The Urban vs Rural fight is also a theme in the Golgamesh/Enkidu fight in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
@justincheng5241
@justincheng5241 2 жыл бұрын
I would also add that the association of pork with foreignness (beginning with the association with Philistines), would have compounded the southern critique of the North, since, one favored attack of the Biblical writers were that the Northern Kingdom were too cozy with their foreign neighbors and their cultic practices. BTW, I suggest doing a general video on religion and dietary practices, including discussing the dietary restrictions from the Indian religions of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
@josef2012
@josef2012 2 жыл бұрын
To be fair,they're all cultic practices.
@lufhopespeacefully2037
@lufhopespeacefully2037 2 жыл бұрын
do u read quran
@UGNAvalon
@UGNAvalon 2 жыл бұрын
@lufhopes peacefully Do they need to?
@hiwhowhatareyoudoinghereme1974
@hiwhowhatareyoudoinghereme1974 2 жыл бұрын
@@lufhopespeacefully2037 I’m going to read the Quran one of these days. Why ask everyone though
@lufhopespeacefully2037
@lufhopespeacefully2037 2 жыл бұрын
@@hiwhowhatareyoudoinghereme1974 ,because god had commanded us to transport islam`s message to nonmuslims as the last message from go to mankind
@Gracievision
@Gracievision 5 ай бұрын
first class video. thank you.
@markgraham2312
@markgraham2312 4 ай бұрын
This video is excellent! Thank you for making it. A couple of notes. 1) The scripture fragment at 12:20 mentioning an apotropaic effect of the pig is strangely similar to Mark 5:2-13 in the New Testament where Jesus encounters a herd of pigs called Legion. 2) In Greece the pig is associated with the original Female cult, the lower class, and sacrifice to the underworld. Whereas domestication of cattle is associated with the Male deities, the upper class, and sacrifice to the Olympians. 3) Finally I would date Leviticus closer to 500 BC as associated with the Documentary and Supplementary hypotheses.
@celesterosales8976
@celesterosales8976 3 ай бұрын
Interesting. And one thing I don’t see mentioned that I’ve heard as a theory, and that is that pig meat is closest to human meat and perhaps the rare cases that could know that, they want to discourage cannibalism.
@markgraham2312
@markgraham2312 3 ай бұрын
@@celesterosales8976 I'd like to hear more about that. Can some biologists time in whether it's true about the similarities between human and pig meat.
@celesterosales8976
@celesterosales8976 3 ай бұрын
@@markgraham2312 I was watching one of those horrible crime shows where the criminal tried to burn the victims in the fireplace and a police officer who lived nearby said he thought he smelled a pig being roasted. There have been cannibal tribes and when you think how many die of starvation since the beginning of time, it may have been to discourage that. I certainly don’t know thank goodness 😅
@markgraham2312
@markgraham2312 3 ай бұрын
@@celesterosales8976 Thank you.
@merthsoft
@merthsoft 2 жыл бұрын
"Pigs ... don't produce milk." Baby pigs: *starve to death*
@harrietharlow9929
@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs produce milk like all mammals, but they do not chew cud. As for disease, My parents told me that I must eat only pork that has been very thoroughly cooked because they carry trichinosis and humans can contract that (and other diseases) from undercooked pork.
@AnnikaLidne
@AnnikaLidne 2 жыл бұрын
Raw pork meat used to be marinated in vinegar to remove parasites.
@jasminecollins897
@jasminecollins897 2 жыл бұрын
It was poor phrasing, but the difference is that pigs can't be easily milked by humans. Suction is required in order to get their milk out, unlike goats and cows and many other species. In order to milk a pig back then, you'd basically have to suck it out.
@crocodiledundee4461
@crocodiledundee4461 2 жыл бұрын
@@AnnikaLidne Usefull information, thanks ..
@DrSpooglemon
@DrSpooglemon 2 жыл бұрын
@@harrietharlow9929 Those diseases are a problem of factory farming.
@MundaSquire
@MundaSquire 2 жыл бұрын
I once read where the split was between nomadic herders (sheep and cows) and more stationary city dwellers (more pig in diet), and the attempt to distinguish themselves from "the other." The Jews being originally nomadic sheep herders set themselves apart. Thanks for the in-depth analysis and clearing up that myth by good, scientific evidence.
@dbmail545
@dbmail545 2 жыл бұрын
That's the story I was told.
@ninatrabona4629
@ninatrabona4629 2 жыл бұрын
In support of this I would point out that rabbits are also prohibited under Jewish law, they are raised in confined spaces like pigs which would make them well suited to being raised in cities also.
@geeljire9247
@geeljire9247 Жыл бұрын
Just to clarify, they weren't Jews at that point - they were still Canaanites. Then the southern Hill Canaanites in Palestine developed the Hebrew/Israelite identity which then further split into Jews and Samaritans. (There are still under a 1000 Samaritans left in Nablus and the vicinity today) And to clarify even further, the original Canaanites, or the later Hebrew/Israelite populations weren't solely pastoralists, they were also farmers.
@MundaSquire
@MundaSquire Жыл бұрын
@Geeljire Thanks for the info!
@Lektuerekurs
@Lektuerekurs 6 ай бұрын
my school teacher said that they also forbid to make statues of their god because they would be too heavy to carry for nomads. semi-related here bit I hope it fots to the point in the original post.
@davidrobinson5180
@davidrobinson5180 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing about this book. The entire video was very informative. I don't mean to offend, but I'd like to make some alternative suggestions to some of your concluding remarks. At 15:40, you refer to the time the Israelites arrive on the scene. But that misses important details: 1) It equates the earliest mention of "Israel" in the Merneptah Stele (circa 1200BC) with their actual existence "on the scene", when, in reality, Semitic people were in Egypt since the 1800s, as the Ibscha Relief from the tomb of Khnumhotep II and Genesis show, 2) The "Shasu of Yahweh" inscription likewise shows Yahweh worshipping people known to Egypt at least as early as 1400, 3) the name "Israel" goes back to Jacob/Israel in Genesis, who was a descendant of Noah, who had an awareness of similar clean/unclean food in the ark story. To me, it looks like the growth of the population and influence of the post-flood descendants of Shem is a likely factor in the decline of pig eating.
@imankhandaker6103
@imankhandaker6103 11 күн бұрын
It is the eyes - I can never forget those eyes.
@MrWalksindarkness
@MrWalksindarkness 2 жыл бұрын
"there is no reason to hate these people for doing something slightly different that us, but let's do it anyway" -religion throughout history
@UGNAvalon
@UGNAvalon 2 жыл бұрын
I once heard that Japan’s constant history of _necessitating_ cooperation due to natural disasters is part of the reason why it’s so harshly-conformist. Considering how brutal the kingdoms of yore could be to each other, that could explain why the cultures of that time were also xenophobic/conformist. 🤔
@Abilliph
@Abilliph 2 жыл бұрын
It's the opposite of your example. Instead of "they hate these people for doing something slightly different", it was "doing something slightly different BECAUSE they hate these people". The hate probably began by competing over the limited resources in the area. Tough conditions create bad neighbors.
@cathipalmer8217
@cathipalmer8217 2 жыл бұрын
Eh, more a people thing than a religion thing. It's just that historically, most people were religious. I refer you to the antipathy among people identifying with different modern political parties. Not religion based. Just human.
@berlineczka
@berlineczka 2 жыл бұрын
Oh, the narcissism of small differences, as Sigmund Freud called it
@KarlKarsnark
@KarlKarsnark 2 жыл бұрын
I tend towards the theory that pigs are/have always been a little "too human" in both taste and temperament for many cultures. We even use them for human medical analogs today. If anything, having such a "prohibition" is a gift to the pigs who never had to worry about being led to slaughter. The proverbial blessing in disguise.
@LakhnBer
@LakhnBer 2 жыл бұрын
Again, um, how is it that you know that pork tastes like human flesh. Just wondering.
@KarlKarsnark
@KarlKarsnark 2 жыл бұрын
@@LakhnBer I read it in a books somewhere. Good ol' "long pig" tastes a treat! (I'm Veggie, IRL, but manflesh is big among Orc too, I hear)
@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341
@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341 2 жыл бұрын
@@LakhnBer Pig's molecular muscle structure is closer to human's than any other animal. Thus we can use pig heart valves in human hearts.
@thatlittlehuman9238
@thatlittlehuman9238 2 жыл бұрын
@@LakhnBer there is a famous Japanese cannibal, Issei Sagawa, who killed a girl and over the course of a few days ate pieces of her. Later when he confessed, he said that human flesh tastes like pork.
@fadyalqaisy7550
@fadyalqaisy7550 2 жыл бұрын
Pig was prohibited for its holiness not for its filth
@embuchan
@embuchan 23 сағат бұрын
you say "BCE" and "CE".... but what divided the "current era" and all that came "before" the "current era" ? this Man is everything.
@Sparkypark
@Sparkypark Ай бұрын
Answer to the video - it’s because it is so tasty (I’m a current vegetarian). It isn’t eaten by those who are not worthy. (Which I guess is me now).
@jayedgardyson1920
@jayedgardyson1920 2 жыл бұрын
I hereby declare that this is - by far - the best channel on KZfaq. Every video is so well presented and contains so much fascinating and wonderful information - so much so that I often watch them time and again and still come away each time having learnt something new and invaluable. Thank you for all the work that goes into making this channel so excellent.
@bewton88
@bewton88 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this channel. I am not at all a religious person but I do find things religion related fascinating. The whole, "why they do it" thing will never be boring.
@themysticmuse1111
@themysticmuse1111 2 жыл бұрын
This.
@timq6224
@timq6224 2 жыл бұрын
Why they do it. Ever wonder why the Roman Empire adopted christainity in the first place? It was far easier to force people to adhere to the teachings of a god they could only imagine than keeping people from climbing Mount Olympus.
@irgendwer3610
@irgendwer3610 Жыл бұрын
@@timq6224 well if you look at all the roman neighbors, they all lost their pagan religion or reformed it, this suggests that polytheism is (like animism) a stage in religions that civilizations need to overcome in some form. The persians created the dualistic system out of their pantheon, the indians created henotheism, the israelites created monotheism
@itsytyt5192
@itsytyt5192 Жыл бұрын
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@fearnach
@fearnach Жыл бұрын
@@irgendwer3610 Now, that is a bold assumption. The word "to overcome" suggests that monotheism is, in some way, superior to polytheism, when it is evident that this is simply an idea that had spread through Europe and parts of South-Western Asia by happenstance, comparable to language families-and I do want to point out that the Persian's dualism and the Indian's henotheism are still forms of polytheism, and Buddhism, by far one of the largest religions in the world, has no god at all. Much rather, the reason the Roman Empire adopted Christianity was quite simply the fact that Constantine the Great converted to Christianity himself due to a set of mostly personal circumstances, and did a significantly better job at convincing the Roman public-many of which already were Christians-to accept the religion than someone like Elagabalus did. Do note that the Western Roman Empire fell not 200 years later. Looking in the direction of East Asia and Africa also provides some clues that this is, indeed, not the case. China has been largely Buddhist and Taoist for much of its history, save for the Qing dynasty, with the former having, as previously mentioned, no god at all, and the latter being quite clearly polytheistic; and Japan has combined ideas of Buddhism and Shinto until the 19th century, with the latter having, by far, the largest number of deities in any recorded religion. And while yes, Shinto is much less popular than Buddhism there nowadays, this is a rather recent development that came with globalization, education and scientific advancement, with Buddhism being a lot easier to believe in as an educated individual due to making comparatively few attempts at explaining the natural world with metaphysics.
@t0mn8r35
@t0mn8r35 4 ай бұрын
Very interesting and well presented.
@janetmerner3731
@janetmerner3731 4 ай бұрын
0:45 that is on King Street here in Oshawa, I pass it on my way to Bowmanville.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 2 жыл бұрын
@ 0:48 Aversion to pork was also common to Scottish highlanders. One regiment in America during the French and Indian War nearly starved because they wouldn't eat the pork rations provided (to their credit, the other units didn't take advantage of this, so when hunger got the better of them, the highlanders still had rations available).
@miss42310
@miss42310 Жыл бұрын
Wait really! Gotta look this up
@strawpiglet
@strawpiglet Жыл бұрын
I read that the Kelts considered dogs and pigs closely related, and Cuchulain was forbidden to eat dog (and died after breaking that taboo) - I wonder if there's a correlation.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi Жыл бұрын
@@strawpiglet A connection here seems possible. The Scots did come from Ireland, so perhaps the taboo was native to Ireland and was introduced to what became Scotland.
@user-bp5qz5jd3f
@user-bp5qz5jd3f Жыл бұрын
In Chinese, there is an idiom (豬朋狗友) which literally translates to pig-dog friends. It means bad friends who influences you in a negative way. Although Chinese people consume a lot of pork and dog in the past and the present, and clearly never had any taboos towards pig and dogs, their views towards both of them are a mixed one. Pigs and dogs are still viewed somewhat negatively in Chinese culture. There's also "schwinehund" in German, which translates to "swine-hound", and it's often used as an insult. So yeah there may be some connections.
@Albukhshi
@Albukhshi 6 ай бұрын
@@miss42310 Sorry for the delay, but yes, that happened in 1759. It was specifically the 2nd Battalion of the 42nd regiment that did this, while they were marching through the Mohawk River Valley. It wasn't the only example either: the newly-raised 77th and 78th regiments, while still in Scotland having been freshly raised in 1757, refused to eat the pork rations given to them. As a result, the bacon issued was just left to rot.
@francestod.tandocjr4092
@francestod.tandocjr4092 2 жыл бұрын
I have lot of relatives living in the rural areas. The main reason why they raise very few pigs is that , pigs compete with human in term of food. Pigs does not eat grass , they eat corn or rice , which human also consume, pigs are feed by human left overs, so raising so many pigs is not sustainable when their source of feeds depends on just human leftovers, there are not just plenty of human leftovers to feed so many pigs. Goats , cattle and sheep eat grass , there are just plenty of grass growing all over, so there are no problems to feed them. In your video you said that pork are consumed by the poor people which is the opposite. Pork are served in special occasion like gatherings , marriages, baptism etc.
@beastshawnee
@beastshawnee 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs will eat grass-maybe not as first choices for nutrition-I personally have fed grass to pigs-but pigs eat everything. In a pig enclosure-there is not a blade of grass left and often the tree bark is also missing up as high as they can reach if large trees are in there before the pigs. All small trees get consumed, all weeds eaten. The place will be bare dirt.
@francestod.tandocjr4092
@francestod.tandocjr4092 2 жыл бұрын
@@beastshawnee Well, pigs can’t survive only on grass - they need some grain in their diet, as do chickens - which is why you never see “grass-fed pork” or “grass-fed chicken” on any packaging. You only see grass-fed beef, lamb, and goat, because these animals eat only grass.” Pigs will survive on grasses but they will not do well. This diet will not sustain them for very long and they will not grow and reproduce well, if at all.
@francestod.tandocjr4092
@francestod.tandocjr4092 2 жыл бұрын
@@beastshawnee We raise animals for food production, we expect them to grow and reproduce. If they dont so whats the point of raising them.
@bartpowers9972
@bartpowers9972 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs are a grazing animal and will do well on pasture they do benefit from grain or acorns nuts roots they love to eat Johnson grass roots
@Thomas-wn7cl
@Thomas-wn7cl 2 жыл бұрын
There is an old saying, "root hog or die". In many regions, pigs were meant to forage for their own food. Many times people would put them on an island in a river or off the coast, and come back in a year to harvest them. In Spain a swine herder would drive his swine herd through the woods to feed on the nuts that fall from the trees and other edible roots.
@wildanwildan3144
@wildanwildan3144 2 ай бұрын
"Thou shall not eat the pig, for it will give you diarrhea." imagine finding that line in a religious scripture.
@James-re6co
@James-re6co Күн бұрын
I'm with Jules in Pulp Fiction: "I don't eat any animal that's not smart enough to disregard its own feces."
@KingfisherTalkingPictures
@KingfisherTalkingPictures 2 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know the Philistines were a Greek-related culture. I love stories of the bronze-age collapse.
@stuckupcurlyguy
@stuckupcurlyguy 2 жыл бұрын
I think it's speculated that their name relates to Peleset, which were one of the Sea Peoples mentioned in Egyptian descriptions of those invaders.
@luluflu1140
@luluflu1140 2 жыл бұрын
Apparently they were greeks in Palestine even before the bronze age collapse : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prh4l9SAt52WiZc.html
@lufhopespeacefully2037
@lufhopespeacefully2037 2 жыл бұрын
do u read quran king
@nightprowler6336
@nightprowler6336 2 жыл бұрын
@@luluflu1140 Palestine didn't exist back then.
@andeve3
@andeve3 2 жыл бұрын
It also wasn't called "Philistia", but rather Pleshet, Pilistu, Palastu etc. (probably related to "pelasgós"), and the greek name "Palaistínē" came from those older names.
@adithalee8660
@adithalee8660 2 жыл бұрын
I read in an article awhile back that they did a study and discovered that Pigs are really clean animals and that humans are the problem. They said they did a study in a review in which they had the Pigs to choose what food to go to eat and each time they chose vegetables, fruit, grass and they rejected the trash and filth and garbage. The scientists determined that Pigs weren't nasty but just like humans and other animals that if that's all you give them to eat is garbage and refuge then that's what they'll eat to survive.
@LillyTheLonelySock
@LillyTheLonelySock 2 жыл бұрын
I think I heard something similar. Thanks for mentioning it and explaining it here!
@ladwaloncrownover8986
@ladwaloncrownover8986 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs are like catfish, are created to be bottom feeders. Have you seen a gorilla eating trash? How about a 🦒 giraffe eating trash? They eat heavenly foods that grow high in the trees and they don't carry disease, as well as, live longer life spans than Porky the pig.
@LillyTheLonelySock
@LillyTheLonelySock 2 жыл бұрын
@@ladwaloncrownover8986 I don't think they were created to be bottom feeders - they simply eat garbage because when we domesticated them that is what we gave them. It would probably be the same with many animals.
@ladwaloncrownover8986
@ladwaloncrownover8986 2 жыл бұрын
@@LillyTheLonelySock you may be right. I should do more research before making such bold statements. I apologize and will look deeper into the matter.
@twhitten828
@twhitten828 2 жыл бұрын
@@LillyTheLonelySock agreed...biars were here before humans gave them trash to eat.
@thefongz2931
@thefongz2931 4 ай бұрын
Really interesting video. I was expecting it to be a one-line answer drawn out over half an hour but it really does need thorough historical context to get a handle on.
@andrewflores6137
@andrewflores6137 4 ай бұрын
I stop eating pork in 2007. I don’t even crave bacon. Never look back.
@festina_lente7655
@festina_lente7655 2 ай бұрын
Great story😒
@zendonreyland1298
@zendonreyland1298 2 жыл бұрын
Nowadays here in the US, on the rare occasion someone gets sick from trichinosis, it's usually some hunter who bagged a bear and ate it. Bears are 4-legged garbage disposals!
@modestrocker1
@modestrocker1 2 жыл бұрын
only cause people have invaded and destroyed their spaces
@aldy9721
@aldy9721 2 жыл бұрын
@@modestrocker1 you mean rightfully conquered
@shinobi-no-bueno
@shinobi-no-bueno 2 жыл бұрын
@@modestrocker1 they should contact the united nations
@ata.d1413
@ata.d1413 2 жыл бұрын
@@shinobi-no-bueno I hate the antichrist
@lessforloans
@lessforloans 2 жыл бұрын
That not why they have it. It is a predator thing.
@rm26367
@rm26367 2 жыл бұрын
Growing up, I was told eating pig and shrimp was a sin, no real explanation into why. As an adult, I discovered it was indeed a wrong interpolation of the Bible scripture. It took me years to deprogram myself but proud to say I enjoy both shrimp and parts of of the pig today. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
@anonymousperson4363
@anonymousperson4363 2 жыл бұрын
How do you figure it's an interpolation?
@levi7187
@levi7187 2 жыл бұрын
I had the opposite experience.
@HoneySuckle123
@HoneySuckle123 2 жыл бұрын
🤮 insects of the sea and swine.
@hmdoc16
@hmdoc16 2 жыл бұрын
Bacon wrapped shrimp.... oh yeah
@JiveDadson
@JiveDadson 2 жыл бұрын
Why do you care what the Bible says? Ever think about that?
@ColKlink-pk9yx
@ColKlink-pk9yx 3 ай бұрын
Fascinating video. Thank you. I've always wondered why pigs became such a taboo food source when they'd been a core source of food for millennia prior. Thank you 👍🇦🇺
@pcatful
@pcatful 4 ай бұрын
Pigs were a major protein source for Polynesians. They could be more easily transported and would be able to multiply quickly when explorers settled a new island. In Hawaii there were "pig temples" and a pig god. (I'm not claiming to know how these were used or what this meant in the culture)
@thaiphanvevo
@thaiphanvevo 2 жыл бұрын
I met a Hindu once who ate meat but didn’t eat beef and made a grossed out face when I asked if he ate pork. Interesting!
@Salsmachev
@Salsmachev 2 жыл бұрын
Adding to the above, it's important to note that historical India was ruled by Muslims during several important periods, and that the early modern period of Mughal rule was especially influential in Indian cuisine as we now know it. Pork prohibitions among the Muslim ruling elite almost certainly contributed to its rarity in modern Indian food. Even moreso in the case of restaurant food, which is more directly linked to historical courtly food.
@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti
@AmeshaSpentaArmaiti 2 жыл бұрын
@Illuminatist he's supporting your point, dude.
@debodatta7398
@debodatta7398 2 жыл бұрын
@Bored The Vast majority of India was effectively under Muslim rule for over a millenia which leads to that lol, In fact the pork eating areas are the areas where the Muslism didn't really conquer (7 sisters regions and South India like the Coorgs, Southwestern Hindu Malayalis and Southeastern Hindu Tamils). Also Pork can be said to be a taboo in Hinduism since eating any meat was considered taboo and Brahmins had to be vegetarians or face being outcast and you can't enter temples if you've consumed meat that day or if you haven't ritually cleaned yourself after doing so.
@kshatrapavan
@kshatrapavan 2 жыл бұрын
@Bored The dharmashāstras make a distinction between wild and domesticated pigs. Varāhas i.e. wild pigs are considered relatively clean and can also be hunted and eaten (depending on one's varna), while Vidvarāhas i.e. village pigs are deemed unclean. Wild pigs are still hunted and eaten in parts of India by some otherwise mainstream traditional Hindus. Now since hunting has become uncommon even the distinction has faded, and so even otherwise meat eating Hindus would hesitate eating wild pigs.
@fgtrhwu2
@fgtrhwu2 2 жыл бұрын
@@kshatrapavan Do you think the Mughal rule over india did indeed cause pork to be absent from modern indian dishes?
@NotHPotter
@NotHPotter 2 жыл бұрын
Religion for breakfast, but definitely not bacon today. Any chance you'll follow this up with discussion of the shellfish prohibition?
@typograf62
@typograf62 2 жыл бұрын
@@scottgrohs5940 Yeah, but it has become rare here (Denmark). Unfortunately.
@MusicalRaichu
@MusicalRaichu 2 жыл бұрын
obvious! who would eat anything slimy and smelly that looks like a nasal discharge ... :-) yes i'd like to know about some of those other food rules too.
@TeymurKhan571
@TeymurKhan571 2 жыл бұрын
Its because Abu hanifa lived in Afghanistan and shellfish werent in afghanistan so
@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fence
@Philly_Jump_Over_The_Fence 2 жыл бұрын
That could be a high land - low land(near sea) thing similar to the pig upper kingdom vs lower kingdom.
@yancylevy5779
@yancylevy5779 2 жыл бұрын
@@typograf62 Føtex has it 🙃
@SHWA67
@SHWA67 Ай бұрын
When you think about the fact that there wasn’t a sanitation department and pigs were used for such, of course I wouldn’t want to eat that.
@Whexandra
@Whexandra 4 ай бұрын
Subtle psychological tricks that can be used to make people develop habits, such as varying the rewards people receive to create “a craving”, or exploiting negative emotions that can act as “triggers”. “Feelings of boredom, loneliness, frustration, confusion and indecisiveness often instigate a slight pain or irritation and prompt an almost instantaneous and often mindless action to quell the negative sensation,
@Cor6196
@Cor6196 2 жыл бұрын
When I was a child in the early fifties, there was a "swill bucket" buried in the ground outside our tenement - it was covered by a heavy iron lid. Every day someone in my family - or from our neighbors - would take out the scraps from that day's meals, step on the "lever" that lifted the lid, and throw in the leftovers - never very much because no food was wasted right after the war. Once or twice a week, the pig farmer would come into town and empty the swill bucket onto his truck. Free food for his pigs!
@nunyabiznes33
@nunyabiznes33 2 жыл бұрын
Reminded me off some pig raisers in my town. Pigs can really be free food.
@jayc1139
@jayc1139 2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the video series ''war time farm'', they do the same thing there.
@modestrocker1
@modestrocker1 2 жыл бұрын
in northern vermont this is a way of having a stake in a pig. you provide slop and once its slaughtered you get a cut of the meat. barter economies are very important in rural areas of the united states.
@Judge_Magister
@Judge_Magister 2 жыл бұрын
We still do this in the Netherlands, especially swill from restaurants etc
@oscargordon
@oscargordon 2 жыл бұрын
In college, my fraternity had a food waste bucket and once a week a guy in a truck labeled "The Big Pig" took it away.
@cadencevancel959
@cadencevancel959 2 жыл бұрын
My mom has recently had an issue with a neighbor who owns livestock and lives down the street from her whose pig has been getting out lately and coming chill in my moms yard. Now, my mom didn’t really perse have an “issue”, she named the pig Pablo and made sure he was safe from her dogs but he looked exactly the pig on this thumbnail. (I just gotta say my mom was FaceTiming me telling me how cute he was and worrying for his safety she’s so sweet
@Blurb777
@Blurb777 2 жыл бұрын
Candence - You have a great mom!! You are truly blessed!
@josephcelestine3656
@josephcelestine3656 2 жыл бұрын
Your mom's sweet or the pig? I thought pigs were salty. This is what happens when you don't use commas!
@kakalimukherjee3297
@kakalimukherjee3297 2 жыл бұрын
@@josephcelestine3656 Haha true. She meant her mom, 'coz Pablo is a boy
@rustynails8756
@rustynails8756 2 жыл бұрын
Your Mom sounds fabulous thanks for sharing made me grin
@harrietharlow9929
@harrietharlow9929 2 жыл бұрын
Bless your other. Glad to see she loves animals!
@joshk.6246
@joshk.6246 4 ай бұрын
Pigs do produce milk(mammal), we just don't collect their milk as a practice.
@mellissadalby1402
@mellissadalby1402 4 ай бұрын
This is a fascinating topic.
@VincenzOmaha
@VincenzOmaha 2 жыл бұрын
Your Vulcan eyebrow raise let's me know that you've approached your analysis in a logical fashion. Live long and prosper.
@elibreezy
@elibreezy 2 жыл бұрын
lol
@kai_fatallysapphic
@kai_fatallysapphic 2 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@TheGospelnut
@TheGospelnut 2 жыл бұрын
🖖
@Alastairmellon
@Alastairmellon 2 жыл бұрын
Apparently the name for humans in Papua New Guinea, where they still practice cannibalism, is “ long pig”. So the prohibition on eating pigs is likely to have derived from a banning of cannibalism.
@maggiemae7539
@maggiemae7539 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs will eat humans
@donaldcarey114
@donaldcarey114 2 жыл бұрын
No, it was because people tasted like pigs.
@curiodyssey3867
@curiodyssey3867 2 жыл бұрын
How on earth would people from Papau new Guinea influence judea?
@donaldcarey114
@donaldcarey114 2 жыл бұрын
@@curiodyssey3867 They didn't, I was merely stating that they thought people tasted like pig. That also makes sense since pigs are quite close to humans as far as histocompatibility goes - that's why pig heart valves and pork insulin were used so much.
@Ricca_Day
@Ricca_Day 2 жыл бұрын
Bravo. I was wondering if anyone would point this out! Excellent.
@Nemestro
@Nemestro 2 ай бұрын
What amazes me is that ancient people had a glimpse about ruminant animals. What Im sayin is that every ruminant animal meat is safer to eat, more nutritious and have a better omega 3 to omega 6 ratio bein that way a healthier option.
@ryvyr
@ryvyr 4 ай бұрын
Cheers for video! I would watch non-adsense if were at/near very front/back/both rather than interrupting like commercial. Might you place reels with mutual consideration?
@shieldwolf8096
@shieldwolf8096 2 жыл бұрын
You sir have to be the best guy ever to explain these topics! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I learning so much!!!
@the98themperoroftheholybri33
@the98themperoroftheholybri33 2 жыл бұрын
Pigs do have secondary products, like lard (explained in the video) as well as leather and hair used for brushes
@mysaria7641
@mysaria7641 2 жыл бұрын
Don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but that’s not what secondary products are. Secondary products are obtained from living animals and can be renewed periodically. Primary ones are the ones you need the animal to be slaughtered for, and you can only get more of by obtaining more animals to slaughter. You’re right about hair being a secondary product, but we don’t use it enough to constitute raising pigs solely just for their hair. In contrast to entire dairy, egg, and wool farms.
@jeremylin4087
@jeremylin4087 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think the ancient Jews and Mesopotamians were mass producing paintbrushes, though. So they wouldn't have been useful in that regard.
@martinbriggs9699
@martinbriggs9699 2 жыл бұрын
and crackling ---- yummy
@tanyabrown9839
@tanyabrown9839 4 ай бұрын
There is also a hidden, mystery school aspect to not eating pork as well. Those who have special psychic abilities such as being able to feel energy well find that when a person eats pork, their energetic system, the energy of it is all sticky and hence can help cause congestion in the energy of the body. So hence pork can also be regarded as being a 'dirty' meat due to this aspect of things too.
@Hipsterhandyman
@Hipsterhandyman 4 ай бұрын
This is sooo good🎉
@TeleNikon
@TeleNikon 2 жыл бұрын
Hmmm. So pigs are like cigarettes. Once extremely popular and then banned. Except, perhaps, in the lower classes. Anyone got a light? Gotta smoke some bacon.
@justincase8731
@justincase8731 Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@solomonessix6909
@solomonessix6909 2 жыл бұрын
The use of pigs as scapegoats reminds me of the story in the Bible where Jesus sends the evil spirits into the herd of pigs that ran over the cliff.
@platynowa
@platynowa 4 ай бұрын
TL;DW: The elite class who created religion were disgusted with poor people and what they ate.
@rupertbollywood1190
@rupertbollywood1190 4 ай бұрын
It's happening again. They want to stop us eating all meat, but especially beef, now.
@user-ho4nw5sf3w
@user-ho4nw5sf3w 3 ай бұрын
I would say, up until the early 20th century it was easier to control large groups of people through common belief, Religion. This was true everywhere.
@johncipolletti5611
@johncipolletti5611 Жыл бұрын
As a former farm worker and a history buff, I'll give you some information. Many people were wanderers. Especially thebJrws. Simply, you can herd sheep but it is almost impossible to herd pigs. The early Jews knew this. Muslims may also have known this but might have taken the taboo from the Jews. Hey, do you know in the Jewish Torah, you are not allowed to eat shell fish but you can eat GRASSHOPPERS. Why? Those fish are bottom feeders and take in a lot of poison from the water. In many living areas thousands of years ago, most garbage and crap went into the water. Grasshoppers (locust) eat vegetables. They are also 90% protein. So they are a healthier food source.
@hollyhartwick3832
@hollyhartwick3832 10 ай бұрын
I think that ancient Jewish text referring to the pig as "unclean" is a big telltale. Their propensity for eating garbage and rolling in mud (as the ancients likely didn't understand that pigs can't sweat and roll in mud for temperature and pest control) would have seen them as filthy beasts. One thing to note, though, is that while pigs may be the best known prohibition to the modern layman, it was far from the only creature considered "unclean". Carnivores and shellfish, for example, also fell into this category. Many seafood creatures enjoyed today, such as oysters, clams, mussels, snails (a la escargot), shrimp, and lobster were also considered equally taboo. The horse meat popular in many parts of the world, off-limits. Same with wild game other than ruminants like deer, elk, etc. Since bacon, ham, and pork chops are very popular in the modern world, pigs get a lot of the attention here, but it goes far beyond that.
@erichstocker8358
@erichstocker8358 3 ай бұрын
Interesting exposition!
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