Monday, November 16, 2015

Is It Ethical to Eat Pig Meat?

by Rabbi Goldie Milgram JewishValuesCenter.org

The other day at breakfast five of the six Jews present ordered bacon with their eggs. I was torn about saying something, as it disturbed me. Prosp​ectively speaking, Judaism got it totally right --​ ​it is unethical to eat pig meat. Listen to neuroscientist Lori Marino of Emory University and The Nonhuman Rights Project: “We have shown that pigs share a number of cognitive capacities with other highly intelligent species such as dogs, chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, and even humans. There is good scientific evidence to suggest we need to rethink our overall relationship to them.”

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