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Vindication?

The broad (though not universal) taboo against eating primate meat has some basis in the higher risk of shared/cross-species diseases, due to a closer genetic relationship.

If there's a little pig in us, that'd argue for stronger taboos against eating pork... exactly as in Judaism and Islam.

Yes - I think many religious taboos have their basis in sensible food hygiene and incest avoidance. But that's not how it's pitched; often the claim is that "pigs are unclean".

Which is why it'd be funny.

that would be hilarious indeed.

Dead human bodies are considered unclean too. That's not a value judgment about live humans.

@gojomo, this is what I had thought the original poster meant. Shame it was a better, nicer joke that way around.

I don't think human meat is currently kosher or halal, so would it really matter?

Certain Islamic radicals have called Jews the "descendants of apes and pigs". Perhaps these radicals are just excellent evolutionary biologists.