What do Jains eat then? Perhaps surprisingly, milk and cheese are part of Jain cuisine. Above all to eat like a Jain you should try to think like a Jain. That means adopting their diet not for the sake of your waistline but out of respect for the living beings with whom we share the earth. If you are curious to try eating like a Jain then take at look at these recipes from the Leicester Jain Centre.
Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Home Episodes Clips Podcast. Main content. Could you eat like a Jain? Radio 4 on India. In the UK there are over 29 million egg laying hens, and over the course a year, apart from a lucky few who get saved from slaughter and adopted by a sanctuary or a nice family, each and everyone of these birds will be killed and replaced in order to supply the British population with cheap eggs.
Over the course of my life, I have probably eaten a couple of hundred eggs. As a result, I believe that I am personally responsibility for the death of about 10 innocent chickens and chicks.
Even though I think I have always been good natured and well-intentioned, the death and suffering I have caused is something I have to deal with for the rest of my life. Most vegetarians I know are vegetarians because they believe it is wrong to kill animals for food when it is perfectly possible to live a healthy life without doing so. And if this is the reason for being vegetarian, given that chickens are killed in egg production process, I find it very difficult to see how eggs can be considered to be suitable for vegetarians, or any adherent of the timeless Jain principle of ahimsa.
Just like humans and all other mammals, in order for a cow to give milk, it needs to be pregnant. This pregnancy naturally leads to birth of a calf. While female calves can grow up to become milk giving animals like their mothers, the males are of very little use to a dairy farmer. They consume a lot of food, but are the wrong type of cow to be reared for beef.
So they are typically killed soon after birth. And while the female calves are spared immediate slaughter, they too get killed prematurely.
A female cow could naturally live for more than 20 years if given the chance. But after producing milk for a couple of years, the yield of a lactating cow drops — and it makes economic sense for a dairy farmer to replace her with one of her more productive offspring.
A fully grown cow that does not produce milk is very costly for a farmer to keep, and so the farmer sends the cow to the slaughterhouse. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. What would happen to all the cows if everyone stopped drinking milk? As sunlight does not reach below the ground, each of these root vegetables contain infinite organisms living on it.
Most of the Jain do not eat eggs but some of them have started eating it. Jain are never allowed to eat garlic, onion, potatoes etc, so they can not even think of eating eggs. They use a mild soap to wash their clothes, once or twice a month.
This is where such a minute detail has been taken care of by Jain monks. Jain monks distinctly because of their attire. Here it is to be noted that Jain monks wear the Muhapatti to avoid unwittingly kill the insects or living beings through the process of breathing. A muhapatti is used to cover the mouth. All Digambara monks and nuns traditionally carry only three things: a mor-pichhi peacock-feather whisk , a kamandalu water pot and shastras scriptures.
Clergymen mostly visited dentist less than once a year
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