Right it is a religion of logical reasoning and the logic here is that we should not defy Allahs commands. Allah commanded muslims to abstain from pork and he will test us in how obedient we are to his commands or are we just working our ways around them as you suggest. If Allah says obey me and I am happy with you, disobey me and I am not happy with you. Logically what will you want to do? I hope Obey him.