Hi all,
on my statement that pig was on of the allergy triggering foodstuff
I have to make a little update.
I talked to a friend who is a allergoloy specialist.
He told me the most frequent allergy triggering foodstuffs that are
found
by *tests* in his work are:
1. nuts, fish, egg, milk
2. rye, wheat
3. various meats (pig not more than others) and fruits
4. almost *anything*

So pork does *not* generate more allergies as other meats.
It is something different with
pork: Is contains very much histamine.
Eating pork can generate the same cascade of allergic reactions like
an
allergy.
But it's not an allergy, it just looks like one.
It's just a "normal" reaction that the histamines produce
Another histamin
 rich food item is strawberry.

My father usually gets sick after eating pork because it starts
other allergies with him (pollen).

Btw. allergy tests applied on the skin, reveal half of the truth
because
they can only test the foodstuff in its natural state. Many allergies
are on the partly digested stuff in the gut which can't be applied on
the
skin.

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:57:56 -0800, Susan Carmack <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>What are pigs fed?

Pigs are real omnivore. And that's what they get.
Anything - all garbage one can think of.
For example all the leftovers from restaurants and casinos are first
heated
and then given to the pigs again.
This is the way how the pigs mass- desease "swine fever" is spread -
from
pigs
beeing fed the remainings of their own kind, from the leftovers from
dishes (swine fever only spreads to pigs and humans are safe from it).

I think it would be wise for anyone eating pork, to try to get it from
sources where he or she knows what
the pigs were fed (and that are rarely restaurants).

regards

Amadeus