Cows are slaughtered for manufacturing mrdangas

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> 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.

 

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