Pork is one of the most controversial meats on the planet. On one hand you have Healthy ancestral cultures from the Middle East which forbid eating meat from pigs, deeming it unclean and unfit for human consumption.
On the other hand, Dr. Weston A. Price observed, photographed, and wrote about healthy traditional societies from the Polynesian islands that regularly consumed it. In addition, pork was and still is a major component of the diet of exceptionally long lived cultures in Okinawa, Japan and the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
So what is the truth about pork, which comprises nearly 40% of the world’s current meat production? Is it a healthy food to consume or not?
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