Clean Meat?

Choosing Clean Meats (from Jordin Rubin)

Pork and dishes made from pork top many Americans' favorite food lists. Some people don't realize, however, that these foods come from an unclean animal — swine. The pig did not make the Creator's list of "clean" animals for a very good reason. Clean animals like cows and deer that chew the cud have an advanced digestive system that includes an alimentary canal and a secondary cud receptacle. They have three stomachs to process and refine their clean, vegetation-based food in a process that can take up to twenty-four hours.

Pigs or swine, on the other hand, never limit their diet to vegetation. They will eat anything they can find — including their own young and sick or dead pigs from the same pen.

It's no wonder, then, that pork contains poisons and by-products that can harm you, including the destructive enzymes cadaverine and putrescine. For your health, stick to the animals that the Creator chose as his ideal food for humankind.

For a quick reference when it comes to choosing meats, remember the bible's guidelines: Choose meat from animals that have cloven hooves and also chew their cud. There are no exceptions to this rule. If an animal has just one quality or the other, its meat is unclean.

Mike has been sensitive to pork for the last couple of years and I started to notice some reactions to it too. After reading Perfect Weight America, we decided to cut it out of our diet completely and we've been feeling much better! He has avoided his bi-yearly food poisoning and horrible stomach problems after a pork roast. Makes sense! We eat turkey bacon on occasion and turkey instead of ham sandwiches... we really don't miss it at all.