Accepting under this tweet your theories about why Islam bothered to prohibit the consumption of pork given that Arabs did not eat pork or keep pigs anyway (you can't herd them, and you need permanent water to raise them anyway). I have my own theories but curious to hear yours.
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That's the theory I find most convincing as to the primary driver of it, although obviously there's cultural stuff that ties into it -- tainted pork being a major source of foodborne illness, pigs being associated with eating refuse, etc.
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Pigs are also one of the closest relatives to humans in the animal kingdom. Which is why scientists are working to harvest organs from pigs for humans:https://immunology.sciencemag.org/content/4/41/eaau6298 …
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