> Pork? Probably because they noticed pig herders/handlers got various diseases. Right. So it would be a religious codification of "common sense", as suggested

> Pork? Probably because they noticed pig herders/handlers got various diseases. Right. So it would be a religious codification of "common sense", as suggested by the original poster who suggested that the same might have happened with people getting unwell from milk. For whatever it's worth, the theory I've read about pigs was that they simply weren't a good match for a nomadic lifestyle in an arid region. People still wanted to keep them though (presumably because they taste good), and it took a religious prohibition to keep them from it. No idea what the historical consensus is.