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Thinking to myself:

Many barnyard fauna are good for more than meat. Cows and goats give milk. Sheep give wool. Chickens give eggs. Horses work.

Sure, they're all tasty too, but there's plenty of reason to keep them alive and healthy on the farm.

On the other trotter, we have the pig. It doesn't give milk, wool, eggs, or labor. It's good for one thing and one thing only: being delicious. If animal royalty were determined by mouth-watering flavor, the lion would step aside and the porker would reign eternal. 

So what does God tell his people? "Sure, eat any of your helpful farm friends – just not the one good for nothing but succulence."

What a divine jerk.

I'll bet that in Eden, too, the forbidden fruit was the only really good fruit in the garden.