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many restaurants add eggs in the flour dough, for example, and the further irony is that restaurant owners will neither tell nor write about it on their printed menu.
o In one city in USA, I was told that one Hindu Mandir
used to get lunch (with naans) catered every Sunday from a restaurant of a devotee of that temple. The food was served as prashad to the Sunday congregation. The restaurant always used eggs in the naans and never told the temple about it. Thus the prashad itself was no longer pure veg. When I told the temple about it, the truth came out in the open. So my advice is to avoid Naans and Roomali Roti.
Instead, order plain roti or tandoori roti. You will be safe. o In supermarkets, fast food and grocery stores, some of the
food items marketed as vegetarian may not be vegetarian. Even from the list of printed ingredients, it is difficult to be very sure. Please be careful. Some of our youths here when specifically contacted the manufacturers, the truth came out but not easily. o Whenever my family and I go out to eat, especially pizza, we always ask the waiter to wash his hands, wash the cutting knife and the cutting board, put on new gloves and then make our pizza and other food items, including sandwiches. If he refuses to do so, we don't eat there and find some other place. We follow the same practice everywhere, including at
Subway fast food restaurants. Now you decide: is this behavior consistent with ahimsa?
ANIMALS& BIRDS AS PETS IN JAIN HOMES In some Jain homes, I have seen dogs, cats, rabbits, and parrots as pets. The use of live animals and birds as pets is increasing in Jain families. Dogs and cats are not caged, but rabbits and parrots are. Also, it is not uncommon to find Jain homeowners who gladly and regularly serve non-vegetarian foods to their dogs and cats. I am not against keeping pets as long as they are not caged. In the case of a dog or a cat, in
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