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[[Category:Questions asked to Srila Prabhupada]]
[[Category:Questions asked to SP... 1976]]
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<div class="heading">We have got many farms all over the world. They are living very happy. Have you got some pictures?... Of our farms, farmland. Leading very simple life, in your country, in, I mean to say, America, Europe. Very simple life. Food grains and milk. You can prepare hundreds of nice preparations, full of vitamins, nutritious. And they do not know how to live civilized life.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London|Radio Interview -- July 27, 1976, London]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Mike Robinson: Thank you very much for talking to me. It's been a pleasure talking to you.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hare Kṛṣṇa. Give him prasādam.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: This is a, just a...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Take prasādam.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: It's lovely. Do I eat it with a spoon? (laughs) How's the normal way to eat it?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: You can eat it with a spoon, it's all right.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Yes, there is.... Thank you very much.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: There's no rule for taking prasādam.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: What's it made of?</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: This is called halava.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Farina.</p>
<p>Hari-śauri: Farina and ghee, it's cooked.</p>
<p>Harikeśa: Clarified butter.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Most of our preparations are made from milk products. Therefore we are so much fond of cow protection. It gives the basic principle of palatable foodstuff. But these people, they do not know. They simply cut the throat of the cow and boil it and with salt. (laughter) They do not know how to keep the cow and take milk from it and prepare hundreds and thousands of nice preparations. That is a lack of civilization. Just like all the, what is called, aborigines, they find an animal, kill it and eat. They do not how to utilize the animals. Most aboriginal. We keep cows, we take milk, and from milk we make yogurt, we make ghee, and from ghee we prepare so many things.</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: What do you do with a cow when it dies? Do you just bury it?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. If the cow-eaters can come and take it free of charge. (laughter)</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Well, let me know, you know.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: You can get the skin free of charges. In India still, there is a class, they, when the cow dies, they are called, they are called chamar. So he comes, take away the animal, dead animal, and they eat the flesh and take the skin, make shoes. They get all, everything free. There is no question of going to the butcher's place to purchase. So this much patience they have got, that "We want to eat this cow. All right, let us wait till her death." No, immediately. Just see, what a civilization. And cow is giving milk, she is mother. Killing the mother. Do you think it is civilization? Mother who has given you milk in your childhood, and maintained your life, and because she is old, cutting throat. Is that good civilization?</p>
<p>Mike Robinson: Seems silly, doesn't it. Umm, I think are you keeping cows here?</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: Yes. We have about twelve cows here.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: We have got many farms all over the world. They are living very happy. Have you got some pictures?</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: Of the cows?</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, of our farms, farmland. Leading very simple life, in your country, in, I mean to say, America, Europe. Very simple life. Food grains and milk. You can prepare hundreds of nice preparations, full of vitamins, nutritious. And they do not know how to live civilized life.</p>
<p>Jayatīrtha: Here are some nice pictures here. Some of our cows, you see this small one. And here's one of our farms in West Virginia in America. There's over a hundred and fifty cows in this farm.</p>
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