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Why do jain avoid eating meat?

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Jains avoid eating meat because the satureated fat of the meat made the Jains sick especially the adults, they also avoid eating meat because the meat they ate had saturated skin which can give cancer and heartburn, it can also be unhealthy to not eat meat

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Jain's avoid eating meat because Jain's are very serious about not injuring or killing any creature.

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