Some Sects of Hinduism including Vaishnavism Stick to the purest kind of vegetarianism as a really perfect while Shaktism and Tantric sects freely take in chicken, mutton (goat and sheep meat), fish and eggs. The reasons said by Jains and Vaishnavas are: the theory of nonviolence (ahimsa) applied to animals;[181] https://www.cureayu.com/blogs/lifestyle/medicinal-plants