atyaz [he/him]

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Cake day: November 29th, 2023

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  • There’s a book about this that hypothesizes that middle eastern cultures naturally developed a disdain for pork because it caused a lot of illness in the hotter climate. When chickens arrived in the region, they filled the same role as pigs (turning trash into meat in a cramped urban environment), while causing fewer serious illnesses. This basically eliminated the need for raising pigs and created a cultural disdain for them. Later, religions from the region codified these ideas.