THE SWINE:    Is PORK or the SWINE  clean or unclean?  What scriptures supports your  belief of eating pork, or not eating SWINE FLESH ?

Dangers of eating Pork:-

1. Hepatitis E

In developed nations, pork liver is the top food-based transmitter of hepatitis E, a virus that infects 20 million people each year and can lead to acute illness (fever, fatigue, jaundice, vomiting, joint pain and stomach pain), enlarged liver and sometimes liver failure and death.

In rare cases, hepatitis E infection can lead to myocarditis (an inflammatory heart disease), acute pancreatitis (painful inflammation of the pancreas), neurological problems (including Guillain-Barré syndrome and neuralgic amyotrophy), blood disorders and musculoskeletal problems, such as elevated creatine phosphokinase, indicating muscle damage, and multi-joint pain (in the form of polyarthralgia)  

2. Multiple Sclerosis 

One of the most surprising risks associated with pork — one that’s received remarkably little airtime — is multiple sclerosis (MS), a devastating autoimmune condition involving the central nervous system.

The robust link between pork and MS has been known at least since the 1980s, when researchers analyzed the relationship between per capita pork consumption and MS across dozens of countries.

3. Liver Cancer and Cirrhosis 

Liver problems tend to trail closely on the heels of some predictable risk factors, namely hepatitis B and C infection, exposure to aflatoxin (a carcinogen produced by mold) and excessive alcohol intake. 

And in statistical models incorporating known perils for the liver (alcohol consumption, hepatitis B infection and hepatitis C infection), pork remained independently associated with liver disease, suggesting the association isn’t just due to pork piggybacking, as the case may be, on a different causative agent. 

4. Yersinia 

Yersiniosis’s acute symptoms are rough enough — fever, pain, bloody diarrhea — but its long-term consequences are what should really ring alarm bells. Victims of Yersinia poisoning face a 47-times higher risk of reactive arthritis, a type of inflammatory joint disease triggered by infection. 

5. Risk of Parasitic Infections

While gastroenteritis and other bacterial infections may seem like no big deal, the risk of parasitic infections should give you the shivers! Pigs are known to be carriers of a number of parasites, most notable being roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms and pinworms. Taenia solium, which is a type of tapeworm, is commonly found in pigs and it can cross species to transplant itself in the human intestine. This occurs through the consumption of undercooked pork meat.

Trichinosis or trichiniasis is another parasitic disease that can result from the consumption of undercooked pork. This happens when the meat is infected with larvae of the Trichinella spiralis, which is a species of roundworm. This was a common infection in the past but has now become quite uncommon in most developed countries. Most reported cases today can be traced back to the consumption of wild game.

Pork is the meat eaten during Pagan festivals. It was the number one animal used to sacrifice to heathen god

https://justcook.butcherbox.com/history-of-the-yule-ham-the-long-standing-tradition-of-roasting-a-holiday-pig/ 

https://1historyofgreekfood.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/christmas-2-pig-killing-animal-sacrifice/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/christmas-ham-history 

https://evermorefarm.com/why-do-we-eat-ham-at-christmas/