Cows are slaughtered for manufacturing mrdangas

[Guest guest]

This is not new news. This has been the situation for many years, more than

30 years and definitely during Srila Prabhupada's physical presence. Some

mrdanga-makers may be scrupulous but how will you find them? Most (if not

99%) do not care from whom they acquire the skins and the fact is that the

mrdanga-makers have always procured the skins from 'mucis' who deal with the

bodies and skins of dead animals. Obviously Hindus would have nothing to do

with such things. I think that to find a 'scrupulous' muci or muslim who

gets his skins from cows who have died a natural death would be next to

impossible. The only alternative - which those devotees who raise cows

should have been doing 30 years ago - is to keep the skins of their own dead

devotee cows and take them to the mrdanga-makers.