Guest guest Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I did a forum search, but I didn't see anything come up on this. I know there isn't much mention of pork in Nourishing Traditions. However, I was wondering would it be important to get pasture fed pork, like it is with beef? Pigs are omnivorous therefore I wonder. Where I get my grass-fed beef they also sell pork, but the pigs get grain. Any thoughts? Thanks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 > This is an interesting topic that I've wanted to post here for a while. In NT, Sally and > say no pork meat. But could this be biased simply because Enig is > Jewish? No. When asked this on numerous occasions Sally cites an unpublished study where blood abnormalities were produced in grad students who ate pork. If you go to http://onibasu.com and search chapter leaders list for her explanation you will get more details. Suze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 Interesting. I wonder if this has anything to do with the organ compatibility (supposedly pig organs are highly compatible with humans)... -Lana > > No. When asked this on numerous occasions Sally cites an unpublished study > where blood abnormalities were produced in grad students who ate pork. If > you go to http://onibasu.com and search chapter leaders list for her > explanation you will get more details. > > Suze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 9, 2008 Report Share Posted May 9, 2008 > No doubt there are, but I can't think of any rare recipes for pork - it > always seems to be well " processed " , by heat when cooking or else lots > of salt and spices and even smoking if making sausages and so forth. Its > a contrast to beef, which can be eaten raw. And also the 3-year dry curing of traditional prosciutto. No cooking. Yes salting, sometimes smoking. I read somewhere that the " Mediterranean diet " is more pork fat than olive oil, with olive oil going to export and so many Greek and Italian and etc. peasant dishes made of pork too. And where olive oil is 70% oleic acid, pork is 45%. Connie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 Still, I wonder if that applies to all pork or just those raised in smelly warehouses being fed slop. The way they are currently raised, it's got to be one of the least healthy animals there are. Yet if you buy pastured pork, especially from heritage breeds, seems like the difference between factory-farmed chickens and free range - that is, a world of difference. I read that in Ireland the custom was for peasant families to each raise a pig. It was like a pet and lived in the house with them, knew commands, etc.; at the end of the year they sold it to go off to England where it fed their appetite for meat and that was how the family got much-needed cash. While there are a number of problems with that way of doing things (like how could you send a pet off like that?) it does seem like that would be the ideal for that type of meat. After all, they ran around loose and ate lots of grass, etc.; no antibiotics, either, I'd bet. > > > This is an interesting topic that I've wanted to post here for a while. In > NT, Sally and > > say no pork meat. But could this be biased simply because Enig > is > > Jewish? > > No. When asked this on numerous occasions Sally cites an unpublished study > where blood abnormalities were produced in grad students who ate pork. If > you go to http://onibasu.com and search chapter leaders list for her > explanation you will get more details. > > Suze > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 <<Interesting. I wonder if this has anything to do with the organ > compatibility (supposedly pig organs are highly compatible with humans)...>> Yes they are, and so are you - I remember reading somewhere that its sensible to eat " down " on the food ladder - it seems that there are often problems when living beings don't/can't do this. Examples are feeding grass eaters ground up protein from animals, often their own species. Or feeding grain/veg dried kibble to dogs and cats who are pure carnivores. The eaters get all sorts of degenerative diseases, and if the species are *too* close, (ther pig) we can catch an ailment or even face the chance of a disease jumping over from one species to the other (scrapie in sheep brains being passed to beef cattle as ground up protein food supplements and then possibly to our brains as kreutsfeld-jacob). Mostly we don't face this problem with pork and other meats as its customary in the USA (and possibly canada) to pre-freeze them to kill any nasty bits - the UK I am not sure of! But I buy as organically as I can, needless to say! regards from edella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 2008 Report Share Posted May 10, 2008 --- In , " Edella Sutcliffe " <edella@...> wrote: <<Yes they are, and so are you>> Sorry! I meant that you are correct and so are they, not that you were a pig organ! I am between cataract operations and have poor vision atm - also my brain thinks faster than my fin gers (which also have the bad habit of hitting adjacent keys at the same time. Sigh! regards from edella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Sally's (vague) answer here: http://onibasu.com/archives/cl/13786.html > > Interesting. I wonder if this has anything to do with the organ > compatibility (supposedly pig organs are highly compatible with humans)... > > -Lana > > > > > > No. When asked this on numerous occasions Sally cites an unpublished study > > where blood abnormalities were produced in grad students who ate pork. If > > you go to http://onibasu.com and search chapter leaders list for her > > explanation you will get more details. > > > > Suze > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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