Book Title: Medieval Jainism
Author(s): P S Jain, R M Lodha
Publisher: Ashish Publishing House

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________________ 114 MEDIEVAL JANSM:CULTUREANDENVIRONMENT aesthetic taste. Even the artificial fattening processes to which the animals are subjected in order to increase their weight and consequent market value, are fraught with deleterious effects upon meat products after their slaughter. It is a well recognised fact that, in most instances, a super abundance of flesh on the human animal (obesity) is synonymous with systemic poisons and incipient diseases. Why should we expect better results from this unnatural and inhuman, though unquestionably 'profitable', stuffing treatment inflicted upon cattle, pigs, chickens and so on, just prior to their conversion into food for man? Ethical From ethical standard we have no right to take life of other beings, because all living creatures should have the right to enjoy life without exploitation and unnecessary pain and fear as the life of the animal is sacred as all life is Divine. Moral Food also has a definite influence on the person who takes it not merely from the physical standpoint but even psychological. A man's character, his behaviour and his emotions are all moulded by his diet. Sociology and other sciences show that those races which are nonvegetarians in their diet are more inclined towards fierceness as meat creates a desire for provocation. It has always been understood in general that when one wants to take up simple living and high thinking-call it by whatever name-vegetarian food must replace meat and other flesh foods. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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