However there is a vast difference between milk and eggs. This understanding is incorrect because an egg is the progeny of a hen, similarly milk is not the progeny of the cow. If the milk producing cow or goat is not milked at the proper time, agony is caused to it. Having said this, there are still issues about the way dairy cows are treated and their culling as soon as they are past their prime milking days. Along with the renunciation of wine and meat, Jain religion also preaches the renunciation of honey also.
Honey is the excrement of bees.
It is produced out of their destruction and incessantly innumerable Jivas are born it. The basic foundation of Jain food is non-violence. First of all, we should only take such food, which involves least possible injury. It is necessary to avoid destruction of even one sensed beings as far as possible. Cereals, oil-seeds, pulses etc. are produced only when their plants get dried of their own after their age ends.