@Jimsock1
Exactly the screencap I expected.
@SuppeBargeld
The most likely theory I've heard on the banning of pork in those cultures is the trichinosis problem. Intriguingly, that parasite is carried in dog meat as well, which is also forbidden. Fun fact: pigs are the most well-known "unclean animals" in Judaism, but
dogs are the unclean animal most commonly used in insults throughout the bible, both old and new testament.
There's also the theory that the clean/unclean animals distinctions, as well as most of the rest of the Jewish dietary laws, were simply there to keep the Jews
different from the surrounding peoples in the region, so as to preserve their own cultural or religious identity under circumstances where it could easily have been wiped out via conquest, captivity, or marrying into other regional cultures. (This could definitely apply to Islam as well.)
The truth is probably somewhere between those two ideas, or a mix of both. (Remember, the dietary laws are in the same books of the torah as "this is what you do if mold starts growing on the walls of your house".)