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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Jain Diet
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:37:50 -0400
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On 4/3/2025 7:50 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-04-03 7:01 p.m., Ed P wrote:
>> I'm thinking of starting this.  Vegetarian is good, vegan more 
>> extreme, but this is over the top. Want to join me?
>>
>> The Jain diet emphasizes a plant-based diet that minimizes harm to 
>> living organisms. It is a highly restrictive diet that requires 
>> careful planning to ensure adequate nutrient intake
>>
>> Can Jains eat chocolate?
>> Everything chocolate which contains cocoa powder is non - Jain and 
>> forbidden to eat as the process of making cocoa powder from the beans 
>> involves heavy fermentation which kills infinite amounts of jeevas.
>>
>> Why don't Jains eat spinach?
>> The reason Jains do not consume a certain category of vegetables is 
>> because each part of such a plant contains infinite lives. This 
>> includes not only root vegetables, but also other plants like aloe, 
>> spinach, sprouts etc
>>
>> Can Jains have potatoes?
>> Strict Jains do not eat root vegetables, such as potatoes, onions, 
>> roots and tubers, as they are considered ananthkay. Ananthkay means 
>> one body, but containing infinite lives. A root vegetable, such as 
>> potato, though appearing to be a single object, is said to contain 
>> infinite lives.
>>
>> Can Jains bathe?
> 
> 
> One of our wedding guests was a Jain. He was the son of a business 
> associate of my FiL. MiL used to invite him for special dinners like 
> Thanksgiving and she went to great efforts to find things for him to eat 
> that fit with their very restrictive diet.  Despite their very strict 
> prohibition on alcohol his cultural taboo on booze didn't stop him from 
> enjoying enough booze to get absolutely pissed at the reception.
> 
> The poor guy had to make an emergency trip back to India. He had had a 
> telephone call to tell him that his mother was on her death bed. As it 
> turned out, the mother was fine. It was a ruse to get him back home to 
> get married to the wife they had arranged for him to marry.
> 
Oh, such a sweet love story.  Mom probably would have died had he not 
done that. Did she come with a dowry of a goat or pound of gold.