Hi Ron and Paleophiles!

>While I
>believe pork to be a safe food for human consumption, I would welcome
>research that subjected that notion to rigorous investigation.

I have the rigorously investigated research.
Coincidentally, I purchased some 'wild' boar from my neighbourhood 
wild meat butcher recently.
As the days of eating boar went by, I developed burning itchy acne, 
so painful that I had to go to bed with ice packs on my back and 
shoulders; arthritis developed in my right knee, my left thumb began 
to get arthritis and I became lethargic.
I decided to check out what these "wild' boars were eating:
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/financial/farm1997/cac14s01.html
Wheat!, barley!, soy! and premix?
(I had naively hoped that the boars had eaten their traditional diet 
of acorns, tubers and earthworms).

So I would conclude that if the boar is being fed a grain free, soy 
free, non-genetically engineered diet, it would be safe, but 
otherwise it can make people who are longtime celiacs or paleopeople very ill.

I looked up 'pork feed' and read this:
Garbage should only be fed to swine if established food safety 
practices are adhered to.
From:
http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/safepork/feed.html
Pigs are fed grains:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/4H/Pigs.html#feed

So, celiacs who are intolerant to gluten and intolerant paleopeople 
could have a problem with pork too.

Paleobest,
Susan