Anthropologist Marvin Harris has suggested that the Jewish and Islamic prohibitions of eating pork developed because pigs __________.

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Harris argued that pigs required resources (such as water and food) that were scarce in the environments where Judaism and Islam developed. Thus, the prohibition against eating pork served to reduce competition for these scarce resources.

Anthropologist Marvin Harris Has Suggested That the Jewish and Islamic