Why hindus dont eat pork

This is because Hindus do not consume beef completely. When you look at their scriptures they do not at all cost prohibit the consumption of anything apart from beef, they would always come up with strong suggestions with specific reasons for such.

In Hindu scriptures, most animals are known to be divine. When you kill a snake in some remote Indian areas that still uphold the old ways, a certain ritual must be performed to cleanse that act. They have their old myths about killing snakes. The ritual that is carried out is known as a fire ritual. This ritual is known as yajnas in the Hindu language. Apart from snakes other animals that are considered divine include lions and elephants.

When such a huge animal gets killed cleansing act is always performed. Do not forget that there are certain months in which fishermen are not allowed to fish at all.

This script explains to us that Hindus do not recommend taking the life of an animal for consumption. This makes pure Hindus become vegetarians.

Some of them can end up begging for food just to avoid committing sin. On the other hand, meat in general inclusive of pork is considered not to be healthy when consumed by humans. In addition, pork meat contains different types of pathogens that are found in its body. Do not forget that there are certain side effects that one can be exposed to. These three must always be balanced.

For more details on these three, please see my Presentation - Ayurved and Ritucharya. Each food increases or decreases one or more of the three. For example, ginger increases pitt , but reduces vaat and kaph. There are a few foods that help in controlling all three.

Triphala , Bathua and Baal-mooli radish which is not ripe or fibrous are examples of such tridosh-shamak foods. On the other hand, there are foods that disturb all three vaat, pitt and kaph. Fortunately, there are not many such foods. Prime examples of such foods are beef, rajmah red kidney beans , sarson kaa saag leaves of mustard and ripe fibrous radish. As a rule, one should avoid all these foods. It is not surprising that the rule is followed across India by most communities.

Of the four avoidable foods, let us first discuss about rajmah and sarson kaa sag. Both of these are extremely popular in Punjab and neighboring states and are rarely consumed anywhere else in the country. Northern states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal have extreme weather conditions and agriculture is an essential part of the lifestyle.

Due to the extreme weather conditions and hard physical work, people of the region have the capacity to digest what may be called as difficult foods. Hence, these people developed recipes that could neutralize the ill effects of rajmah and sarson kaa saag. Ghee, butter, garlic, jaggery, butter-milk, corn flour etc.

Even with all these precautionary steps, a person like me who does practically no physical work cannot digest either rajmah or sarson kaa saag especially considering the fact that I live in a place which has moderate climate. This is something that I can confirm based on practical experience.

Rajmah, sarson kaa saag and fibrous radish the type that comes to markets in India at the end of winter when summer is on the doorsteps always create problems for me every time I have them. Of course, if the quantity consumed is small and the weather is real cold, the adverse effects are tolerable. Having learnt my lessons from three of the four prohibited foods, I see no reason why I should experiment with the fourth food - beef - and not trust the books of ayurved.

Obviously, there is no benefit that beef offers for which I must face up the disturbance of all three - vaat, pitt and kaph. One must remember that diseases that are caused by disturbance of only one of the three doshas or defects are easily curable; diseases caused by disturbance of two defects are relatively difficult to cure while diseases caused by disturbance of all three are often incurable.

Ayurvedic texts do not go into detail about the ill effects of eating beef for a long time since probably they did not even imagine that anyone will be foolish enough to consume something which tops the list of foods that can cause disturbance of all three defects. Before we move from beef to pork, let us for a moment talk about buffalo meat.

From this you might assume that I am a head-banging atheist. You would be absolutely right. In this admittedly fundamentalist world view, life is one huge cosmic joke. That being the case, eating pork belly, sucking lobster from the shell, and scarfing cheese burgers is simply a way of making sense of it all or at best passing the time.

From this you can also tell I am a Very Bad Jew. And rightly so, because none of it makes the blindest bit of sense. Once upon a time eating pork in a hot country might have been a bad idea but not now. The prohibition of mixing meat and dairy arises because of a passage in Exodus, in which it is declared an abomination to cook the baby goat in its mother's milk.

Well, I'm with the Bible on that. But that's not a reason for banning cheeseburgers. So it's just a thing my Jewish brethren do. Because it defines difference. It sets them apart. Just as the strict veganism of the Jains sets them apart from the vegetarianism of the Buddhists. Each to their own, I suppose.