Eggs vs Dairy

Revisiting the last post:

Basically, we humans have 5 senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, feeling). We categorise all organisms based on the number of senses they posses. The organisms with the most number of senses are then removed out of the diet. Resulting in a Lacto-Vegetarian diet.

As you can see, animals are at the top of the 5 senses chart, and hence a vegetarian diet is formed. 

Eggs vs Dairy.

Now, eggs if fertilised would create a creature with 5 senses.

Hence, eating eggs is seen as preventing a life from being born which otherwise could have been born. It can also be seen as "an act of irreverence" to the life of the chicken. Eggs are seen as the precursor to life. Taking an egg away from the chicken is likened to taking a child away from it's mother. The trauma to the chicken is another reason to not eat eggs. Nowadays, unfertilised eggs are easily produced however the process of harvesting eggs and the cruelty in handling all of this is another reason why many Jains do not eat eggs.

Dairy on the other hand at most contain microorganisms with single senses. Additionally, the process of extracting milk in the olden times was much more humane and hence instead of killing or potentially killing a 5 sense being you were extracting nutrients from them at a comfortable level.
Nowadays, the dairy industry may cause death of the animal and there is a lot more cruelty in the process of extraction and hence I do question whether I should go vegan, to which I think inside I do think that I should. It becomes more a question of lifestyle and habits.

Anyhow, this was the reasoning behind why Jains are primarily: Lacto-vegetarians rather than Lacto-ovo vegetarians.

This all gets even more interesting if we start to delve deeper into what Jain's think about plants and eating plants.

Jainism on plants.