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Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Mmm. [ He gives a quick laugh. ] This is another foolishness. They are advertising prevention of cruelty, and they are maintaining thousands of slaughterhouses. You see? That is another foolishness.
INDIAN GENTLEMAN:  So I wanted just to ask—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Asking—before you ask, I give you the answer. [ All laugh. ] That is another foolishness. They are regularly cruel to animals, and they are making a society . . .
BOB:  Maybe this is—
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Suppose a gang of thieves has a signboard—“Goodman and Company.” You sometimes find such a signboard.
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  Our landlord in the San Francisco temple was named Goodman.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  The philosophy is that when an animal is not properly nourished, that is cruelty. Therefore instead of allowing it to starve, better to kill it. That is their theory. Is it not?
BOB:  Yes.
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  They say, “Oh, it is better to kill him than to give him so much pain.” That theory is coming in communist countries. An old man—grandfather—is suffering, so better to kill him. And there—in Africa there is a class of men who make a festival by killing their great-grandfathers. Is it not? Yes.
ŚYĀMASUNDARA:  They eat them?
ŚRĪLA PRABHUPĀDA:  Yes. [ Śyāmasundara laughs. ] Yes?
A DEVOTEE:  I had an uncle and aunt. They were in the Army. So when they went overseas, they could not take their dog with them. So they said, “The poor dog. He will