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.
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.