Anthropologist Marvin Harris has suggested that the Jewish and Islamic prohibitions of eating pork developed because pigs __________
A. were known carriers of disease
B. had meat that was especially high in fat and calories
C. competed with humans for scarce ecological resources
D. lived in filthy places and ate garbage
Answer: C
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