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  2. Jain vegetarianism - Wikipedia

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    The Jain cuisine is completely lacto-vegetarian and excludes root and underground vegetables such as potato, garlic, onion, cauliflower, eggplant, mushroom, etc., to prevent injuring small insects and microorganisms. The diet also helps prevent the entire plant from being uprooted and killed. It is practiced by Jain ascetics and lay Jains. [1]

  3. Food and drink prohibitions - Wikipedia

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    Jains not only abstain from consumption of meat, but also do not eat root vegetables (such as carrots, potatoes, radish, turnips, etc) as doing so kills the plant and they believe in ahimsa. In the hierarchy of living entities, overwintering plants such as onions are ranked higher than food crops such as wheat and rice.

  4. Diet in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Diet in Hinduism signifies the ... It continues to say that not eating flesh is a practice more sacred than the most sacred religious practices ever known (verse 259 ...

  5. Ahimsa in Jainism - Wikipedia

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    The Jain vegetarian diet is practised by the followers of Jain culture and philosophy. It is considered one of the most rigorous forms of a spiritually motivated diet on the Indian subcontinent and beyond. The Jain cuisine is completely vegetarian, and it also excludes potatoes, onions and garlic, like the shojin-ryori cuisine of Japan.

  6. History of vegetarianism - Wikipedia

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    The religions of Chinese Buddhism and Taoism require monks and nuns to follow a vegetarian diet free of eggs and onions. Since abbeys were often self-sufficient, this effectively meant they adhered to a vegan diet. Many religious orders also avoid harming plant life by not eating root vegetables.

  7. The 'soup for dinner' diet: It's easy, delicious. A never ...

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    You will not be bored or boring as a cook or an eater on this diet. Quick soups, simmering soups, you-can't-make-a-mistake soups. ... French onion is the most romantic soup of them all. Where to ...

  8. Vegetarianism - Wikipedia

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    They go to great lengths to minimise any harm to any living organism. Most Jains are lacto-vegetarians, but more devout Jains do not eat root vegetables, because they believe that root vegetables contain many more microorganisms as compared to other vegetables, and that, by eating them, violence against these microorganisms is inevitable.

  9. North West Eating an Onion Like an Apple Has Us Confused - AOL

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    Kim Kardashian and Kanye West‘s 10-year-old daughter, North, still has Us thinking about the way she ate an onion on The Kardashians. During a new episode of the Hulu reality series, which ...