Any Vegans ever consider going Jain?

[Taverner]

That is, not only no meat, eggs, milk, etc... but no roots or killing of the plant...

Oh, and you can't step on bugs and have to wear a face mask to prevent inhaling gnats.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. ...

:popcorn:

[Schema Thing]

3. NO POPCORN, dude!!

have a little respect, will ya?

[BikeWriter]

12. Hey, is there any more of that?

[YankeyMCC]

2. Wow, how do people who do that get calories then? nt

[ghostsofgiants]

7. They're be able to eat non-root fruit and vegetables I assume, and berries and such.

Soybean isn't a root and presumably doesn't kill the plant, so soy products are still acceptable I'm also guessing.

[YankeyMCC]

10. Yeah after a little reading and thinking I assumed that would be the case

but isn't that exploiting the plants? ;)

[jmowreader]

17. Soybean harvesting kills the plant

They use combines to harvest soybeans. Combines cut the stalks off almost at ground level, so the soy plant is toast when the beans are harvested.

I don't think you could be a devout Jain in the United States if you didn't own fifty acres to grow food on.

[Critters2]

21. No, moran. Soybean plants live out their natural life before being harvested

If you ever saw soy bean plants in the fall, you'd know they turn brown. This is because they are dying. The beans are harvested when they are as dry as possible, that is after they have stopped getting water and nutrients from the soil. That is, after they have died. The same is true for corn.

This "they kill soy beans" argument will be an appropriate response to veg*ism, when and only when you eat hogs who died of old age.

You should get out of the city and see a real plant once in a while.

[datasuspect]

4. dude, that is hilarious!

[flvegan]

5. Nope.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. You just couldn't do the life of complete celibacy.

:P

[zonkers]

6. Why not just become a breatharian -- no food at all. (not making this up)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. But but but the oxygen molecules SUFFER too!!!11!11!!11!!!

[Coventina]

9. Jainism is a religion. You would have to have a religious conversion

experience to become a Jain.

I suppose a vegan could adopt a Jain lifestyle without the associated religious belief, but I don't think that would make one "Jain"...just a stricter vegan is all.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. its a religion not a food choice..so they would have to accept the religion of jainism

as religions go, its a pretty good one.

[MonkeyFunk]

14. Is pork a vegetable?

[MonkeyFunk]

15. before anyone else says it:

no, it's a verb, dumbass.

[HEyHEY]

16. If it's covered in apple sauce I think it is

[ironflange]

19. What do you serve with Roasted Polar Bear Cub?

I've tried it with HP sauce, Worcestershire, even cranberry sauce, and none of them seem right.

[Zhade]

18. What about microbes, though? How does one avoid killing them?

</needless snark>

I thought Jainism was a religion?

[Critters2]

20. Only Jain monks wear the face mask.

I have two Jain friends. Neither of them wear the mask, and they live their lives just like any other American Vegan.

Thanks for passing on the stereotype, though.