Five Gems Diwakar Chitrakatha 031

Author(s): Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Mahavir Seva Trust Mumbai

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Dear friends,
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Do you remember as a child your mother telling you not to eat cakes or pastries that had eggs because you are a vegetarian ? Many times I have heard people saying "egg is vegetarian food and is good for health so we eat it." The myth about vegetarian eggs and its health promoting qualities is misleading Its consumption by so many vegetarians is really shocking. The ignorance of such matter has spread so far that people resist to believe that egg has potential life and egg has the unborn chick within its shell.
Man's desire for food makes him give into eating those foods that are coloured with violence and pain. Nature has the reason for egg, not by way of food for man, but as an important link in the reproductive system of hens. It is the craving for violent food that actually numbs the feeling and thinking capacity of the human being. He ignores going deep into the subject and shuns the truth of the matter. But how long will he remain in darkness. For facts are facts and they will never change whether he accepts it or not.
Let us look at some facts about eggs and remove the ignorance that prevails in our mind. The facts you are about to read are taken from the book "Hundred Facts About Egg" by Dr. Nemi Chand.
Eggs of all birds are structurally alike, (see The McDonald Encyclopedia of Birds of the World. P. 30-31). Their internal structure is meant for reproduction of progeny and not for human consumption. By eating eggs man has reverted to the hunting stage of his civilization. He is meddling both with nature and reproductive system.
The egg is totally forbidden for those who believe in non-violence. Right from the rearing of hens to hatching their eggs there is violence all over. Visit to any poultry farm will support this fact. In poultry farms hens
are considered no better than egg producing machines. They are confined to a narrow space of 15"x19" in the midst of several hardships and tensions that are naturally passed on to the blood and system of those who eat their eggs and turn them into imbalanced personalities.
Chickens are housed in small congested cages known as chicken-heavens. Due to shortage of space they naturally become violent, offensive, obsessed and quarrelsome, they attack on one another in a barbarous manner. So they are debeaked. Due to debeaking they are unable even to drink water. Do we not see the cause of our present wide-spread, complexes, aggressiveness and suffering in the 'chicken-heavens'?
As said earlier hens are debeaked to prevent them from fighting and wounding one another. The debeaking is done in brown light especially in the night when hens become near-blind. The lower beak is cut. If any mistake is made the hen is deprived of food for the rest of her life. The hen has to starve at least for three days due to the wounded beak. Wouldn't this act of cruelty affect the egg-eater ?
Hens are given five kinds of violence generating food-bone-meal, blood-meal, excreta-food, meat-meal and fish-meal. Can we dare to call egg vegetarian food even after learning this?
The term 'vegetarian egg' is a first rate misnomer. The aim of a fertile egg is animation of life but an infertile egg has no such aim and as such it should be considered totally unedible. Battery and factory eggs are harmful to health and it is better we abstain ourselves from eating them.
The egg produced without any contact with the male-bird (infertile egg) is also