To keep good Karma Jains try to avoid harming the living beings of the world. Many Jains go to great lengths to follow Ahisma. This can go well beyond the regular vegetarianism of no meat or fish. Harvesting one means killing the whole plant.
Honey is not found on the Jain dining table either, because of the violence to bees involved in collecting it. Likewise alcohol must be left well alone. The fermenting process kills countless microorganisms. Stricter Jains look out for these tiny lifeforms by only drinking water which has been boiled to stop the microorganisms multiplying. Some Jains only eat or drink in the daytime. This makes being a Jain in the U.
If you go to any restaurant, they have trouble making vegetarian food. Asking them to make Jain food is nearly impossible to them. Seeing the reactions from the waiters when I tell them that I need something that is vegetarian and has no vegetables that grow underground is hilarious. They give a look as if they have no idea what I am taking about.
Then they would give me an awkward stare as in "I have no idea how to answer this". In addition to enhancing their belief of non-violence, Jains are very careful when it comes to those little insects that most people disregard. Believe or not, the FDA Food and Drug Administration has specific guidelines on the amount of bug part in a particular piece of food.
Bug parts are usually in foods that are pre-processed and packaged. Surprisingly, humans intake bugs in another way. These are small bugs we cannot even see that mystically land on our foods without us knowing. An average person will eat more than a pound of bug parts every year.
Therefore, to try to eliminate the amount of bug intake, Jains try to eat fresh foods straight from the farmer with no additives.
Also, Jains don't eat after sun down or before the sun rises. That is because between those times, there is no sunlight.
In the old days when there was no electricity, people couldn't see what they were eating. They could be eating small insects, instead of a piece of bread like they thought. Although we have had many technological advances since then, the old Jains ideals still stayed. It is the craving for violent food that actually numbs the feeling and thinking capacity of the human being. He ignores going deep into the subject and shuns the truth of the matter. But how long will he remain in darkness?
For facts are facts and they will never change whether he accepts it or not. Let us look at some facts about eggs and remove the ignorance that prevails in our mind.
The facts you are about to read are taken from the book Hundred Facts about Eggs by Dr. Nemi Chand. Their internal structure is meant for reproduction of progeny and not for human consumption. By eating eggs, man has reverted to the hunting stage of his civilization. He is meddling both with nature and with the reproductive system. The egg is totally forbidden for those who believe in non-violence. Right from the rearing of hens to the hatching of their eggs, there is violence all over.
A visit to any poultry farm will support this fact. In poultry farms, hens are considered no better than egg-producing machines. Chickens are housed in small-congested cages known as chicken-havens. Due to shortage of space, they naturally become violent, offensive, obsessed and quarrelsome.
They attack one another in a barbarous manner. So they are de-beaked. Due to de-beaking, they are unable even to drink water. Do we not realize the cause of our present widespread complexes, aggressiveness and suffering in the chicken-havens? As mentioned earlier, hens are de-beaked to prevent them from fighting and wounding one another.
The de-beaking is done in brown light, especially during the night when hens become almost blind. The lower beak is cut. If any mistake is made, the hen is deprived of food for the rest of her life. The hen has to starve at least for three days due to the wounded beak. Wouldn't this act of cruelty affect the egg-eater? Hens are given five kinds of violent-generating foods: bone meal, blood-meal, excreta-food, meat-meal and fish-meal.
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