Pork Medallions

[hairnightmare17]

Watched an advert for pork medallions this am. It claimed to be 'just as healthy as chicken.'

Is this true? I thought (regardless of fat content) it is a red meat and therefore we should be limiting it.

My wife has MS, and there's a bit of a buzz about causation, with the fact that MS seems to be much less prevalent in countries that don't generally eat pork. Now it could just be a climate thing, but quizzing a research geneticist we happen to know (my DB), prompted the suggestion that as humans, we're probably better off not eating things that are too similar to us genetically (which pigs are) as there's loads of scope for viruses and other exotic genetic oddities to jump species.

Presumably bacon is Gods way of making up for it .

I'm not sure that it really matters whether it is red meat or white meat unless you are trying to decide what kind of wine to have with it.

DGRosetti

That’s one of the reasons pork was just not cooked / bought / allowed in our home when I was little.

I honestly don’t remember exactly what the medical issue was (I was very little when it happened) but my grandfather apparently received something pigrelated / derived from pigs (he wasn’t a diabetic) when he was sick... which spooked my DM.

Just to add - pork and veal are classed as white meat from a culinary/gastronomic perspective. Chicken, duck etc is classified as poultry. So that causes some confusion with pork I think but nutritionally it is considered a red meat.

Either way pork is bloody delicious, it's my favourite meat

I bloody love a chop