Prabhupada: We actually make. At least ten, twenty kinds of sweet preparation we make from the cheese. Therefore our, as recommended in the Bhagavad-gita, krsi-go-raksya-vanijyam [Bg. 18.44]. Krsi-go-raksya. People… A class of men should be trained up for agriculture, producing food grain, and cow protection. Cow protection means you get the milk, sufficient quantity, and from milk you get so many nutritious, full of vitamin food.
Dr. Harrap: It’s a complete food in itself.
Prabhupada: Yes. Those who are meat-eaters, they can eat other non-important animals, but cows must be saved, even from economic point of view. Here it is said that go-raksya. It does not say, Krishna, “elephant-raksya.” Elephant is a big animal, and at least fifty times more than cow, there is flesh.
But it is not recommended. But the cow protection is recommended because it has got the miracle food, milk, and from milk you can prepare hundreds of preparation, all nutritious, full of vitamin A and D. So therefore it is recommended, go-raksya. It is not that meat-eating is stopped. Meat-eaters may kill other non-important animals but don’t kill animal, er, cow. And besides that, from moral point of view, we are drinking milk from the cow, so she is mother. According to Vedic understanding there are seven kinds of mother: adau mata, real mother. Adau mata, guru patni, the wife of guru, spiritual master. Adau mata, guru patni, brahmani, the wife of a brahmana.
Room Conversation
with Scientists
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
July 2, 1974, Melbourne
Australians are the biggest consumers (per capita) of meat in the world and the meat industry is very powerful continually pushing their ‘lifestyle of gluttony’ to a captive media audience. Endless ”cooking celebrity” and ”cooking competition” style television programs all sponsored by, guess who? the Meat Industry and their supermarket chain affiliates bombard a society of ”brain dead” morons to gorge themselves on dead flesh and corpses. Now that the ‘mining boom’ has subsided there is a massive push by the government of Australia to invest in the cattle (live export) trade into countries such as Indonesia and China as these places are only too eager to torture these poor creatures to death to satisfy their desire for bloodied, carrion.
South Australia has the biggest cattle ranch (Anna Creek) in the world and is 23,000 sq kms, which is more than seven times the size of the largest Texas ranch (King Ranch). Anna Creek is a part of several ranches (cattle stations) owned by Kidman’s which cover a massive 101,000 sq kms which is much larger than the whole of Ireland! The meat industry is now saying that they will be able to ‘grow’ meat in large vats (10 ton) from just a single cell and be into full production by 2025 (maybe this is why Kidman has put all his properties up for sale!)
The message does not seem to be getting through to society regarding the demonic nature of killing cows and the degradation of the environment which is a result, what to speak of bad karmic reactions to all who are involved in this dirty, cruel business. We are now in a ‘race to the bottom’ as the world descends further into madness and despair while those who are supposed to be imparting Srila Prabhupada’s message to the world are themselves milking FISKCON for their own sense gratification and trying to nullify his transcendental words by their own poisonous influence.
Daso smi
Sudarsana