If the Jain community does not remain awake now, then this disease of laxity can spread even more widely. Often when discussions take place on Vegetarian food, these are centred on green-vegetables only. Like renunciation of night meals, for the reasons of innumerable creatures that come out at night, drinking of filtered water is also scientific.
Pure water is essential for healthy life.
Eggs are the progeny of five-sensed beings. Food produced out of eggs is clearly flesh food. This statement is untrue because it is a product of the sexual organ of the hen. Therefore it is alive, though it may not possess the capacity to evolve form, but in no way can it be treated as lifeless. Some people say that the milk of a cow or goat is also part of the body.