Question
Does the Torah regard pork as unhealthy?
Answer
The Torah says nothing about pork being unhealthy, but the Talmud regards pigs as unusually dirty and diseased. "A pig is like a moving latrine" and "A pig's mouth is like moving excrement" (Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds, Berachos 15a and 25a). "Ten measures of plague came into the world, and pigs took nine of them" (Kiddushin 49b).