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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?

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.

Yogeśvara dāsa: You’ve pointed out that the cow is just like a mother.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes, this is our proposal: “Why should you kill the cow? Let the cow be protected.” there will be so many dead cows. Then you can take all the dead cows and eat. So how is this a bad proposal? When the cow is dead, you can eat it.”

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?

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 cows on our Hare Kṛṣṇa farms are giving more milk than other cows – because they are confident, “

Śrīla Prabhupāda, you were saying that in India, at least until recently, it was forbidden to eat cows

In Europe and America the cows are very good, but the cow-killing system is also very good. You simply request them, “You’ll get the cow’s flesh.

between master and servant, between friend and friend, between the master and the dog or the cat or the cow Kṛṣṇa is also the good lover of the animals, the calves and cows. Just as here we love dogs and cats, there Kṛṣṇa loves cows and calves.

obeisances unto Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is the worshipable Deity for all brahminical men, who is the well-wisher of cows

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.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Now, we must take to agricultural work – produce food and give protection to the cows people should live peacefully in farming villages, produce grain and fruit and vegetables, protect the cows

But especially we request cow protection, because it is ordered by Lord Kṛṣṇa. Go-rakṣya: “Protect the cows.” That is our duty.

Otherwise you will think, “I am a human being with hands and legs, and the cow has no hands and legs. So let me kill the cow and eat it.” Why? What right do you have to kill an animal?

In this verse the first things taken into consideration are the cows and the brāhmaṇas (go-brāhmaṇa). Because a society with no brahminical culture and no cow protection is not a human society but a chaotic

But don’t eat cows until after they have died a natural death. We don’t say, “Don’t eat.” You are so very fond of eating cows. Generally, cow carcasses are given to the vultures. But then, why only to the vultures?

They kill the cows and throw the milk away to the hogs, and they are proud of their civilization – like

Śrīla Prabhupāda: More cows, yes. They’ll have more cows. We simply request, “Don’t kill.

if people have no compassion even toward their own parents, how can we educate them to protect the cow