Pork is from pigs, an animal.

    Ecological implications: The production of meat (including pork) creates more harmful greenhouse gases than the exhaust of all the cars, trucks, and other motor vehicles combined, according to Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. This includes clear-cut removal of forest lands and rain forests to create grazing and feed lands, feed lands that require growing 16 times as much plant food for the creation of one pound (or one kilogram) of animal food (meat and poultry), and huge amounts of animal burbs and farts when grown in factory farming.

• nutritional information
• Chinese herbology
• cautions and contraindications

nutritional information:

    Three ounces of cooked lean only pork shoulder arm picnic have 4.2 milligrams of zinc, which is 30% of the U.S. Recommended Daily Value, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

    Three ounces of cooked lean only pork tenderloin have 2.5 milligrams of zinc, which is 15% of the U.S. Recommended Daily Value, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

    Three ounces of cooked lean only sirloin roast pork loin have 2.2 milligrams of zinc, which is 15% of the U.S. Recommended Daily Value, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

    Cholesterol: Pork has 110 mg cholesterol per 100 g.

    Cholesterol: Lean pork has 63 mg cholesterol per 100 g.

Chinese herbalism:

    Chinese gender: yin (cool)

    Chinese flavor: sweet

cautions and contraindications:

    Cautions and contraindications: You want to reduce or eliminate pork from your diet.

    Animal cautions and contraindications: Ham should never be fed to cats or dogs.

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