80 Perfect Questions, Perfect Answers

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 —

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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—

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Suppose a gang of thieves has a
signboard—“tGoodman and Company.” You sometimes
find such a signboard.

SYAMASUNDARA: Our landlord in the San Francisco tem-
ple was named Goodman.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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.

SRILA PRABHUPADA: 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 suffer-
ing, 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.

SYAMASUNDARA: They eat them?

SRILA PRABHUPADA: Yes. [Syamasundara 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
