a friend is reading Pig Perfect and said the author's hypothesis of why both Judaism and Islam call pig meat "unclean" has nothing to do with trichinosis, but rather the fact that a pig is easy for a single family to raise, and these religions were part of a general scheme to centralize food production. makes a lot of sense to me, and jibes with Neanderthin and Daniel Quinn's books in the Ishmael series.
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