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loretta:
It is commonly believed that excessive consumption of pork is related to heart and other ailments.  After having spent a considerable time in the Babylonian church, I am reluctant to consume too much pork.  Leviticus 11:7-8, Isaiah 66:17, Deuteronomy 14:8 are some verses that forbid the eating of the pig for health reasons (?)

However, it seems that lately, nutritionists are touting the benefits of pork fat, aka lard, against the more common vegetable fats, which are produced using chemicals and heat, a deadly combination.
http://authoritynutrition.com/6-reasons-why-vegetable-oils-are-toxic/

Is it the healthier way to go?

The TOP 3 reasons why YOU should be eating LARD
http://www.weedemandreap.com/the-top-3-reasons-why-you-should-be-eating-lard/

JD:
If you say Jesus backwards...it sounds like sausage. I'd go with it.

Rhys 🕊:
That susej was on to something  ;D

Rhys

Rhys 🕊:
Me thinks Miss Piggy disagrees  :P



Rhys  ;)

Kat:

Hi Loretta,

From the site Judaism 101:
Kashrut: Jewish Dietary Laws
However, health is not the only reason for Jewish dietary laws (kashrut). Many of the laws of kashrut have no known connection with health. To the best of our modern scientific knowledge, there is no reason why camel or rabbit meat (both treif) is any less healthy than cow or goat meat. In addition, some of the health benefits to be derived from kashrut were not made obsolete by the refrigerator.
v

In recent years, several secular sources that have seriously looked into this matter have acknowledged that health does not explain these prohibitions. Some have suggested that the prohibitions are instead derived from environmental considerations. For example, a camel (which is not kosher) is more useful as a beast of burden than as a source of food. In the Middle Eastern climate, the pig consumes a quantity of food that is disproportional to its value as a food source. But again, these are not reasons that come from Jewish tradition.

The short answer to why Jews observe these laws is: because the Torah says so. The Torah does not specify any reason for these laws, and for a Torah-observant, traditional Jew, there is no need for any other reason.
v

In his book "To Be a Jew" (an excellent resource on traditional Judaism), Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin suggests that the dietary laws are designed as a call to holiness. The ability to distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil, pure and defiled, the sacred and the profane, is very important in Judaism. Imposing rules on what you can and cannot eat ingrains that kind of self control, requiring us to learn to control even our most basic, primal instincts.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm
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Rom 14:14  I know and am convinced by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
v. 15  Yet if your brother is grieved because of your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

The OT held the Jews to a higher standard and kept them separate/different from those around them. The old covenant (OT laws) is replaced by the New covenant is much more about following the laws of the spiritual, than the physical laws. I will add, all things in moderation seems a wise thing to do.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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