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The journey of self-discovery 6
Śrīla Prabhupāda: They don’t have to protect the cow. We shall protect the cow. We shall supply you the cow after her death.” Where is the difficulty?
The journey of self-discovery 6
Yogeśvara dāsa: If people don’t kill the cows they will have even more meat, because that way the cows will have more time to reproduce more cows. If they don’t kill the cows right away, there will be even more cows.
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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes, this is our proposal: “Why should you kill the cow? Let the cow be protected.” Aside from that, as far as meat-eating is concerned, every cow will die – so you just wait a while, and When the cow is dead, you can eat it.”
The journey of self-discovery 6
Yogeśvara dāsa: You’ve pointed out that the cow is just like a mother.
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After all, how long will the cows live? Their maximum age is twenty years, and there are many cows who live only eighteen, sixteen, or ten years So wait that much time; then regularly get dead cows and eat. What is the difficulty?
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By killing the cows, how will you get any more meat? The total number of cows will remain the same. You have got a limited number of cows. Either you wait for their death or you kill them at once – the number of cows is the same. And we simply ask you, “As long as they’re alive, let us take the cow’s milk and prepare delicious foods
The journey of self-discovery 6
In Europe and America the cows are very good, but the cow-killing system is also very good.
The journey of self-discovery 6
Because a society with no brahminical culture and no cow protection is not a human society but a chaotic
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The next section is the productive class, the vaiśyas, who engage in agriculture and cow protection. This is Vedic civilization – people living simply, on agriculture and cow protection.
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if people have no compassion even toward their own parents, how can we educate them to protect the cow
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Śrīla Prabhupāda: More cows, yes. They’ll have more cows. We simply request, “Don’t kill.
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to follow the fifth commandment, the law against killing – including animal-killing and especially cow-killing