There are many reasons you should never eat pork. Here are 4 that might encourage you stop, TODAY!
Its porking you up! It’s a fact – ham, sausage, and bacon strips will go right to your hips. Eating pork products, which are loaded with artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat, is a good way to increase your waistline. Eating pork also increases your chances of developing deadly diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s, asthma, and impotence.
Pig factory farming is vile! Crowded into warehouses with nothing to do and nowhere to go, pigs are kept on a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive and make them grow faster. The drugs cause many of the animals to become crippled under their own bulk. Note that the residue of these drugs and anything else they eat (often faeces!) will then enter your body when you eat pork. In many factory farms, pigs are forced to live in their own faeces and vomit and sometimes amid the corpses of other pigs. Conditions are so filthy that at any given time, more than one-quarter of pigs suffer from mange—think of your worst case of poison ivy, and imagine having to suffer from it for the rest of your life.
Farming Family Values? Factory farms are pure hell for pigs and their offspring. Mother pigs spend most of their lives in tiny “gestation” crates which are so small that the animals are unable to turn around or even lie down comfortably. They are repeatedly impregnated until they are slaughtered. Piglets, who are taken away from their distraught mothers after just a few weeks, have their tails chopped off, their teeth are clipped off with pliers, and the males are castrated—all without painkillers.
Bacteria Laden Bacon and Harmful Ham Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70 percent of them have pneumonia by the time they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. In order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would otherwise kill them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human illnesses. This overuse of antibiotics has led to the development of “superbacteria,” or antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham, bacon, and sausage that you’re eating may make the drugs that your doctor prescribes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
Please do think twice about what you are feeding yourself and your family when you eat this drug filled, dirty meat! Is it giving you any nutritional value? Is your body going to benefit or worse still, is it going to suffer from its effects?
Bethan Lee
