Your Pet Pig is killing you !!! GOD did not tell Peter its OK to eat Pig pork bacon lobster shellfish & bolshies ... The context shows (( imho)) that GOD was telling Peter not to consider gentiles unclean !!! had nothing to do with breakfast Bacon, evening pork chops !!! Later on, Paul was saying that food that had been sacrificed to idols could be eaten .The pagan temples sold their meat from their sacrifices at a discount !!! Act_10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. Act_10:28 And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. Better give your pork chops the Coca Cola test !!! one of the grossest videos I have ever seen shows someone pouring Coca Cola over some fresh porkchops right out of the meat markets package and worms crawling out !!! The same video shows parasites and even worms being removed from people... Since this is a family site, I will not post the url link here... however anyone wanting to be really grossed out can IM me.... If you abstain from these things, Hebrew University studies have shown that you are several times less likely to get cancer...I finally found a copy in one of my notebooks of one of the Hebrew University studies.. Your immune system will fight off flues, illness, etc, far better.. . certain animals GOD created to be scavengers to eat up-- clean up. dead things... these creatures have a very fast metabolism... garbage, along with its corruption bacteria viruses, paracites, infest the pig & etc , the corruption become part of the pig & etc very very quickly ... that is why GOD told Moses and the Jews to avoid them... NO its not a sin to eat this stuff... however, your health will most likely suffer if you do... available from Amazon: book "Gods key to health and happiness" by Elmer Jacobson ......... Yes once in a great while I may have a pepporini pizza..which has a tiny amount of pig.. I still like canned Spam... but very very seldom do it... and I sometimes regret it... It just sits there in my stomach oinking and asking me "Now why Did You Do eat me" …... imho you should look into the research instead of accepting the government FDA statements... anyway, the science is that people eating kosher have less than %30 of the cancers compared to the general population,,, almost no flu,,, very seldom have illnesses... this is a fact, not opinion...I have seen that over and over in my personal experience..... the Hebrew university Jerusalem has done research on this... I have found one of their research papers I thought I had lost... It seems that pork somehow inhibits the immune system... making people more succeptable to all kinds of stuff.... So, it doesnt make any difference what you feed your pigs.... you still have the same problem... Btw, ever heard of Swine Flu !!! and yes, it is said by some investigators that pigs are the primary virus vectors in our society.... anyway, I think we have beat this pig to death with a stick... GOD did NOT tell Peter its OK to eat Pig pork bacon lobster shellfish bolshies; etc Excerpt from an "expert": """Here is a link to a study done by Dr. David Macht of Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Macht published some 900 medical research papers in his career. I understand Johns Hopkins still makes an annual award in Macht's name. Macht had a particular interest in toxicology related to blood. He studied the effect of extracts of various animal tissues on plant growth. Suffice to say Macht found a dramatic difference between groups of animals (quadrupeds, birds, and fish) that happens to exactly match the clean/unclean outline of Leviticus. The following scale illustrates some of these results: Note the higher values are better ox (91) calf (82) sheep (94) goat (90) deer (90) swine (54) rabbit (49) camel (41) horse (39) dog (62) cat (53)... The good news here is that pork is better for you than horsemeat. Soldiers in WW1 rioted when fed horse meat which was much more widely available than beef. Interesting that sheep is at the top of the list, followed by ox. These meats were widely available in ancient Israel. Years ago I shared this information with my own doctor who happens to be an Orthodox Jew. First, I asked him how much training he had had in nutrition. He said a few hours worth in medical school. So I gave him a copy of Macht's study and he said the following. "I am not surprised. But do you think Jews keep kosher because of these results? No, actually we eat kosher because Hashem (God) said so!" Feel free to ignore Macht's study. It is straightforward research for quadrupeds, birds and fish. The results exactly parallel the list in Leviticus. This research could easily be disproved. I did a serious internet search a few years ago expecting to find somebody somewhere challenging Macht's findings. What I found was a doctor in Louisiana who had extended Macht's approach to shellfish. What he found was that shellfish was the worst of all! He said it was no wonder that Louisiana had the worst overall health of the entire 50 states. Enjoy your shrimp on the BBQ.""" Lewis B