towardssakinah replied to your post: Pigs are very clean creatures, all meat carries risk for disease/health problems. The reason pork is prohibited is most likely that it’s wasteful to raise pigs in a desert environment & pigs can’t survive desert conditions. They need to be penned in as they can’t be herded, they require large amounts of water, they eat food that people eat… direct competition for resources people need so it’s silly to waste those resources for a little bacon. Islam is all about conservation and against waste.
one imam told me that in islam we r forbidden to eat any carnivorous animals, since pigs r omnivores people were confused on wether they were ok to eat or not so allah revealed the ruling that they r not halal to clear up the confusion
That’s my understanding and what I told my family when they asked what meat was “the devil’s meat”
