Some questions by Srila Prabhupada

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If there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton, enough

silk and enough jewels, then why do the people need cinemas, houses of

prostitution, slaughterhouses, etc.? What is the need of an artificial

luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this

civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally?

Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by

sending thousands of men into a hellish factory and the war fields at the

whims of a particular man?

 

Do not the cows require proper protection for a joyful life by being fed

with a sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why should men kill cows

for their selfish purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains,

fruits and milk, which, combined together, can produce hundreds and

thousands of palatable dishes? Why are there slaughterhouses all over the

world to kill innocent animals? Should not a king or executive head protect

the lives of the poor animals who are unable to defend themselves? Is this

humanity? Are not the animals of a country citizens also? Then why are they

allowed to be butchered in organized slaughterhouses? Are these the signs of

equality, fraternity and nonviolence?

 

SB 1.10.4 ppt.