"Do not eat because an hallucinating guy told us not to" sounds like a brainless zombie answer to the question! The reason comes however due to the geographic background of Muslims and Jews (which doesn't eat pork as well).
The pig is an animal that requires too much water, not only to drink but also to prevent its skin to get dry and water was always an huge issue on Middle East. Not to mention that pigs and dogs (also forbidden in Islam) are the only animals which competes directly with humans for food, on dry regions food is hard to grow and abundance never happened in Middle East.
So in the end this ban on pork and dogs came out not of "Allah's command" or any other of Muhammad's stock of imaginary friends, but by surviving needs of the people on the region where he lived.
And nor by sickness or bacterial purposes by the way, since Mo's was far from be a doctor or a pharmacist and even came out with a funny one on the subject, he claims that when a fly gets in your water you should dip it because on one wing it has the illness and on the other the cure (for that illness) - Sounds stupid, but also shows how important water was (and actually still is) for the people of the Deserts.
Another fair example is the ban on alcohol, since alcohol makes people more thirsty.
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