180 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 10, Ch. 10
hanyante pasavo yatra
nirdayair ajitatmabhih
manyamdnair imam deham
ajardmrtyu nasvaram

hanyante—are killed in many ways (especially by slaughterhouses);
pasavah—four-legged animals (horses, sheep, cows, hogs, etc.); yatra—
wherein; nirdayaih—by those merciless persons who are conducted by
the mode of passion; ajita-dtmabhih—rascals who are unable to control
the senses; manyamdnaih—are thinking; imam—this; deham—body;
ajara—will never become old or diseased; amrtyu—death will never
come; nasvaram—although the body is destined to be annihilated.

TRANSLATION

Unable to control their senses, rascals who are falsely proud of
their riches or their birth in aristocratic families are so cruel that
to maintain their perishable bodies, which they think will never
grow old or die, they kill poor animals without mercy. Sometimes
they kill animals merely to enjoy an excursion.

PURPORT

When the modes of passion and ignorance increase in human society,
giving rise to unnecessary economic development, the result is that
people become involved with wine, women and gambling. Then, being
mad, they maintain big slaughterhouses or occasionally go on pleasure
excursions to kill animals. Forgetting that however one may try to main-
tain the body, the body is subject to birth, death, old age and disease,
such foolish rascals engage in sinful activities, one after another. Being
duskrtis, they completely forget the existence of the supreme controller,
who is sitting within the core of everyone’s heart (ivarah sarva-
bhiatanarn hrd-dese ’rjuna tisthati). That supreme controller is observing
every bit of one’s activity, and He rewards or punishes everyone by
giving one a suitable body made by material nature (bhramayan sarva-
bhitani yantraridhéni mayaya). In this way, sinful persons auto-
matically receive punishment in different types of bodies. The root cause
of this punishment is that when one unnecessarily accumulates wealth,
