Today huge quantities of Pork are being consumed. Advertising on Radio, T.V., and Billboards praise the flesh obtained from Swine. Possibly you are eating bacon for breakfast, a ham sandwich for lunch, or pork chop for dinner, never thinking twice about the source of the meat on your plate. One might include some of the other popular meats of the day, such as shrimp, shell fish, catfish, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, woodchucks, even horsemeat, and a whole host of other flesh foods that find their ways into the stomachs of the human race. Few people consider the source of the things they eat and few still seem to care. Should one be concerned about his food? Should we select those things when we eat, with a view toward having robust health or should we merely follow the crowd and live as do our neighbors? We seek to delve into the eating habits of contemporary society relative to the meat that is eaten and answer the question--“Have Swine Meat Changed?”

Noah is the first one recorded to have specific commands concerning the “Clean and Unclean” animals. Yet Adam and Eve as the first sinners were first to have an animal slain for them and first to offer Clean Animal Sacrifices. Noah was born 1457 years before “Sinai” and he was already aware of the Clean and Unclean Meats. To those who would tell us the Unclean Law was only for the Israelites we answer, the flood water pre-dates the first Israelite, Jacob, by nearly 600 years!

The law was in effect centuries before there was a Hebrew, much less an Israelite! It was known--observed by all the inhabitants of the earth after the flood, from whom the world, both Israelite and Gentile descended! We can forget about the “Israelite Only” theory. We can also eliminated the “Mosaic Law” reasoning, considering the fact that salt has been used as a preservative nearly from the beginning of time; we can also set aside the Refrigerator Theory.” The sin must rest on disobedience to a “Thou Shall Not Eat of it.” This is not to deny evidence of the hazards of health or well being from eating unclean, or as the concordance renders it, “Defiled” Food.

Shell fish, Catfish, Swine, Buzzards and other Rodents thrives on garbage, sewer sludge and other refuse discharge from cities. God has created these creatures to absorb refuse that is washed into the sea, and the Buzzards and Rodents on the garbage and refuse.

How few people really comprehend that when Almighty God legislated against the eating of certain foods He was not imposing a yoke of bondage, but He was giving mankind good, knowledgeable advice so that the human family would not have to suffer from some incurable disease contracted from eating contaminated food? The hog was created as a garbage disposal. One would not think of eating that which is in a mechanical garbage disposal, so why should we eat that which has been processed in one that is living? Is there a link between eating Scripturally Unclean Animals and Cancer? More scientific studies should be done along this line to gather conclusive proof.
Gen.1:27-30 (I have given you every herb bearing seed, fruit of a tree for meat (food).
Psa.104:14 (Grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man).
Psa.136:25 (Who giveth food to all flesh: for His mercy endureth forever).

Before sin entered the world, both man and beast were vegetarians. Even as vegetarians there was a “Thou Shall Not Eat” command. The fall of man brought in the second set of dietary laws! With the slaying of the first animals for clothing and sacrifice, both man and beast became carnivorous (Meat Eaters). With the change came a “Thou Shall Not Eat,” known as the law of pleasure, befor He brought man into being; so that, comparing little with freat things, the house was built, furnished, and amply stored by the time the destined tenant was ready to occupy. The reproduction of plants, their seed and fruit--production is automatic.