Ben Balzer wrote:

> Beef tapeworm only infects the bowel but pork will get into the
> liver lungs and brain sometimes.  Hence the very smart religious
> laws against eating pork.  I wouldn't eat pork in a poor country
> unless it was cooked to a crisp.

Not to open a "can of worms" here, but the religious laws have nothing
to do with health.  Well-cooked and/or clean, uncontaminated pork is
just as religiously-forbidden as contaminated pork... plus, it's a
very nutritious food.  :-)

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Deanna