Why Pork is prohibited in Islam

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Food and drink have direct effect on our health. That is why Islam has
prescribed regulations about our food and drink. It lays great
emphasis on our physical as well as moral health, because both of
these are equally important for a healthy society. The abstention from
eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and
to attain purity of soul.

There is clear prohibition of eating Pork in the holy Quran. Allah
says:
" Forbidden to you for (food) are: dead meat, blood and the flesh of
the swine and that which hath been invoked the name other than Allah.
" Holy Qur'an 5:4

This prohibition is not reasonless. Abstention from eating pork is a
measure to safeguard health. Pig eats almost everything dirty and they
are very lazy animals. Of all the domestic animals, pig is the
most avaricious, eating anything including human excreta. It is the
cradle of harmful germs and parasites. Its meat is carrier of diseases
to man, thus making it unfit for human consumption.