Crock Pot Pork Repulses Me

I often hear others tout their personal spins on crock pot pork dishes and mention how long they cook and what those various ingredients include.

Some of my family members pride themselves in such porcine delicacies and some even go on and on about them.
 

First of all, I am not knocking anyone for their gastronomic proclivities and I suppose that the modern processing of meats in general have made the populace at large lax in their observance of Levitical food laws — and alas, there are even a number of those in my midst who do not recognize Leviticus as a valid food reference anyway.

Now, the pig is an unclean animal because it has cloven hooves but does not ruminate. Yes, I eat ham. I eat bacon. I have been known to consume pork with the greatest of gusto.

Those pork inclusions to my diet are typically cooked while well drained of rendered fat as a matter of attention to detail.

Pork products cooked in a crock pot typically are cooked in the rendered pork fat which is a repository for toxins and impurities imparted to it by a beast with no sweat glands which eliminates where it consumes and is my humble opinion and is a health hazard contributor of the highest order.

No amount of spooning the fat from the meat or even removal with a suction baster is sufficient in my eyes.

Just as I would never eat a possum nor other scavenger there are other Levitical food laws that I fail to observe. I suppose it just depends on the animal. For example, I will eat a crustacean like shrimp or lobster and scaleless cat fish but shun the frog, birds of prey, snails, lizards, bats, and most all of the other unclean animals.

I view the appetizing nature (or lack thereof) are my personal limiting factor in the food animal department.

Also, I could never eat a canine, feline, or rodent likely due to their dual roles as companion animals. I simply find the eating of some animals totally abhorrent.

So swine, though unlean will get consumed by yours truly depending on how it is cooked. Should it be slow cooked in a croc pot and allowed to simmer for hours in it's own toxic swine fat ... no thank you.

Violation of the Levitical food laws is a sin against health. They are not sins against the soul.

I've had several issues over the years with hosts becoming offended at my reaction to what was being served for dinner. I have attempted to temper my reactions to various foodstuffs over the years in the name of tact and poise. Making someone cry over a dish they are serving is not my idea of good interpersonal relations and I will consume what is offered to me during social interactions the name of polite company.

There is no excuse for allowing the perception of rudeness to raise it's ugly head.