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What is the reason some semitic peoples avoid pork?
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Religious: The proscription against pork comes from the issue of the trichinosis infestation common to pork. This can infest the human who eats poorly cooked pork with a sickening and sometimes deadly illness. Because of this, a religious prohibition to eat pork has become institutionalized in certain religions of semitic origin include islam and judiasm.
Answered 7/3/2014
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