Thoughts and Reflections on the Pig Lovers and Pig Haters

Agnes Yu    Period 7          9/22/14
Thoughts and Reflections on:
Pig Lovers and Pig Haters

3 Big Questions:
1) What are four explanations (explanations that really don't explain why this is done but are only believed to be true) as to why pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
2) What is the real reason pork is not eaten in the Middle East?
3) How is this an environmental issue?

  There were pig lovers and pig haters, even in the modern times those people still exist. Some people believed that pigs are unclean and they are dirtier than any other animals, also, just because that the emperor's physician, people believed that pigs are bad for health and it causes healthy problems. But for the pig lovers, they didn't eat pigs is because that they thought pigs are holy animals and they only sacrifice for the ancestors when they craving for pork. and only can be eaten when there're big events such as marriages.
   The writer thinks that what's true about people didn't eat pigs is also because of the religion, some religions believed that pigs are really divine, and they kept pigs to be a member of the family and treated them as human beings. But another reason was pigs are the vectors for human disease because they are unclean, also, they writer thinks that pig farming was a threat to the integrity of the basic cultural and natural ecosystems of the Middle East, while for the semi-sendentary, pigs were more of a threat than an asset. In addition, there's something about the temperature, the higher it is, the dirtier the pigs become, so there's some truth to the theory that the people think pigs are unclean.
  How is this an environmental? Between 7,000 and 2,000 B.C. pork became a luxury food, the natural conditions appropriate for pig raising, became increasingly more scarce, thus pork became even more of an economic and ecological luxury, they tasted good but it was too expensive for people to raise them, it coasts a lot more than just about money. Furthermore, the increase in the pig population also accompanied by the increase in the human population. What's more? To feed and raised pigs is also a manpower work,  Maring women complained about having a lot of hard works, they needed to plant the garden and feed their families and pigs at the same time, they needed to work much harder, they found themselves feed pigs rather than people, so on the other hand, the growth of the pig population might lead to the ''WAR''(competition) between man and pig.