Jews don't eat pork either. I'm curious how it is that you don't know that very well known fact about Jewish kosher food. According to Jewish dietary laws (kashrut) in the Torah (Leviticus 11:7 and Deuteronomy 14:8), a land animal is only kosher if it meets two specific requirements: It must have split (cloven) hooves and it must chew its cud (be a ruminant). While pigs have split hooves, they do not chew their cud. Because they fail one of the two requirements, pigs—and all pork products like bacon, ham, and pork sausage—are strictly forbidden.
