Why You Should Avoid Pork
No matter how you think about it, pigs are a rather dirtyanimal. They are considered the scavengers of the farm(created to eliminate any waste on the farm), often eating anything they can find. This includes not only bugs, insects,and whatever leftover scraps they find laying around, butalso their own feces, as well as the dead carcasses of sick animals, including their own young.
This in itself can explain why the meat of the pig can be so dirty or at the very least not so appetizing to consume. And while being ‘grossed out’ may or may not be a valid reason not to eat something it’s vital to understand a bit more about pork before reaching your own conclusion.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) states that more than 100 viruses come to the United States each year from China through pigs. There are some obvious concerns about this. Aside from not needing more viruses to fight off, some of these viruses can prove to be downright dangerous to humans.Of course, you’re probably familiar with H1N1, better known as ‘the swine flu.” This too is a virus that has made the leap from pig to human.
But H1N1 is not the only disease to fear from the pig. There are other sicknesses you can get from eating the meat of the pig.
Pork meat is loaded with toxins, more so than most other meats like beef and chicken.
Is Pork Meat Toxic?
There are reasons that the meat of the pig becomes more saturated with toxins than many of its counterpart farm animals. The first reason has to do with the digestive
system of a pig. A pig digests whatever it eats rather quickly, in up to about four hours. On the other hand a cow takes a good twenty-four hours to digest what it’s eaten. During the digestive process, animals (including humans) get rid of excess toxins as well as other components of the food eaten that could
be dangerous to health.
Since the pig’s digestive system operates rather basically, many of these toxins remain in their system to be stored in their more than adequate fatty tissues ready for our consumption.
Another issue with the pig is that it doesn’t have any sweat glands. Sweat glands are a tool the body uses to be rid of toxins. This leaves more toxins in the pig’s body.
I don’t have to tell you that when you consume pork meat, you too are getting all these toxins that weren’t eliminated from the pig. None of us need more toxins in our systems. In fact we should all be doing what we can to eliminate and cut down on toxin exposure. One vital way to do this is by choosing what you eat carefully. This is the reason there are so many warnings out there about eating undercooked pork.
One of the biggest concerns with eating pork meat is
trichinellosis or trichinosis. This is an infection that humans get from eating undercooked or uncooked pork that contains the larvae of the trichinella worm.
trichinellosis is a serious illness that you should do virtuallyanything to avoid.

Common Symptoms of Trichinellosis:
Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Headache
Fever
Chills
Cough
Swollen eyes
Muscle pain
Aching joints
Coordination problems
Heart issues
Breathing problems
These symptoms of trichinellosis can really put you out of the game for quite a while. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) these symptoms can last for weeks and in more serious cases for months.
Edited by Oladejo Korcym Olohuntoyn
Sources
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (2010)
Science Direct (1999)

Nice but I believe all this is story if u treat the pork meat well....hard boiling and probably frying would do

You have told us the bad parts, let's also hear the good things about them or are doing this for religious reasons

smilyice:
Nice but I believe all this is story if u treat the pork meat well....hard boiling and probably frying would do

is beta not 2 eat pork meat,n if u have bin eating,find oda source of meat 2 eat.

nzeobi:
You have told us the bad parts, let's also hear the good things about them or are doing this for religious reasons

there is no beneficial economic importance that pork meat has. It is beta 2 find other sources of meat 2 eat like rabbit,cow,chicken etc. We nid 2 Watch wat we eat, we deserve to a beta health. Pork is causing more harm than good. Let's tink abt this.

Asides the parasites and pathogens that accompanies pork, pork also contains very dangerous levels of cholesterol as well as saturated fats which can be very detrimental to our cardiovascular health.

More reasons to stay away from this type of meat.

Never liked it anyway...