Re: which one is weirder...
Ok...so my brain tells me that it's haraam because Allah says so. It's something that was said directly, therefore it's just because Allah said so. The way I look at it is that even if I could come up with 100 logical/scientific/etc reasons why one should not eat pork, and then someone turned around and gave me 101 reasons (logical or whatever else you want to call them) why one should eat pork, I would still consider it haraam and would avoid it. I wouldn't even eat chicken, beef, lamb etc. unless the meat is halaal.