Pork and food taboos
Let's talk about food, that will change us of geekery of any kind.
I come from a pretty standard education: food, since it is that we're going to talk, not banned, or at least not aware. Side meat, pork, chicken, Turkey and beef are consumed apart from more or less equal. The horse just a little more behind, because it is difficult to find the right horse. The lamb is rare because – it's too good.
Very quickly, I realized my Muslim friends were not eating should not eat pork. It don't not addressed me more than that: so much the better, there's more for others, I thought.
But, because – the kids that asks questions that make you think, and also because – I learned that non-Muslims eat pork either, I wondered the next 2 existential questions:
- Why don't Muslims eat pork?
- Who doesn't eat pork except Muslims?
That is very succinctly, drafts of answers.
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