Re: What about Pigs
It’s short and simple:
They’re prohibited. We cannot eat them or keep them as pets because they are considered unclean and filthy.
For solidity of this, you can look into Quran for specific ruling.
I posted this a while back in response to a similar thread:
It’s amongst the sins, that’s for sure. FYI: Adultry and fornication are amongst the highest of sins along with Shirk (Joining partners with Allah). The reason eating pork is sin because it is not a clean animal. It eats almost anything. It is highly likely that the animal carries diseases that may prove extremely harmful, if not deadly. So from a Medical point of view, this is why the prohibition of pork was prescribed to muslims.
Food and drink have direct effect on our health. That is why Islam has prescribed regulations about our food and drink. It lays great emphasis on our physical as well as moral health, because both of these are equally important for a healthy society. The abstention from eating pork is one of the steps taken by Islam to practise hygiene and to attain purity of soul.
The prohibition is based on the aim of the purification of one’s nature, because food, when consumed, doesn’t merely enter the stomach and intestines and become excreta. It is absorbed and metabolized into the system and circulated to all parts of the human body, including the brain, and this in no small way affects man’s nature.
Take a look at the nature of the pig for example. The pig is naturally lazy and indulgent in sex, it is dirty, greedy and gluttonous. It dislikes sunlight and lacks the spirit and will to “fight.” It eats almost anything, be it human excreta or anything foul and unwholesome. Amongst all animal flesh, pork is the favoured cradle of harmful germs. Pork also serves as a carrier of diseases to mankind. It is for this reason that its flesh is not suitable for consumption.
You may argue that the “modern pig” reared in farms is given only clean foods, therefore, its flesh should be consumable. The answer is that you may feed the pig on clean, wholesome food, but you can’t change its nature. It is still a pig and will always stay so. A pig is not a plant and you cannot change it by bud-grafting.
Having said that, it does not mean that people should continue to do all the other little things that are “acceptable” sins. It’s just that people do not follow the book and law as it is meant to be followed. There are some people who abstain for all bad things altogether, unfortunately they are but few. So, eating pork is in the bundle of things not to do along with many of the other things that are prohibited.
It’s from here. http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=274047&highlight=Pork