Category:Maintaining Slaughterhouses
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda exposes the severe hypocrisy of modern societies that parade as civilized yet systematically maintain slaughterhouses. He explains that true human progress and spiritual awareness are utterly incompatible with the mass, mechanized killing of innocent animals. According to his teachings, the existence of such violent institutions is a direct symptom of a demoniac consciousness driven by passion and ignorance, guaranteeing collective suffering and making genuine world peace an absolute impossibility.
- The Illusion of Civilized Advancement: The world takes great pride in its technological and social progress, but Śrīla Prabhupāda points out that a society cannot be considered civilized while it sanctions industrial-scale violence. Supporting slaughterhouses under the guise of necessity or religious permission only highlights the degradation of modern human values.
- Religious Hypocrisy: Many so-called followers of world religions explicitly disobey their own scriptural commandments, such as the biblical injunction not to kill, by maintaining slaughterhouses. Śrīla Prabhupāda strictly criticizes this hypocrisy, emphasizing that one cannot legitimately claim to love or understand God while ruthlessly slitting the throats of His creatures.
- The Demoniac Mentality: The maintenance of slaughterhouses is categorized as an asuric or demoniac activity born from the modes of passion and ignorance. Unlike the natural hunting of animals by carnivorous beasts, humanity's systematic breeding and killing of cows and other animals represents a calculated cruelty that fundamentally opposes spiritual life.
- The Karmic Root of World Wars: There is a direct, inescapable correlation between the violence inflicted upon animals in slaughterhouses and the outbreak of catastrophic human conflicts. Śrīla Prabhupāda warns that nature's law of karma demands a reaction for every drop of blood spilled, meaning that as long as slaughterhouses operate, human society will continue to suffer the wholesale murder of global wars.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Why Maintaining Slaughterhouses Destroys World Peace.
Pages in category "Maintaining Slaughterhouses"
The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
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- A small piece of meat they are eating, not very much. But for these small pieces, so many population, huge quantity of slaughterhouse is being maintained
- All right. You kill and meat. Why you are maintaining slaughterhouse? Is that Jesus Christ's instruction, rascal? Thousands of slaughterhouse you are maintaining under the order of Jesus Christ? So they are rascals
- At the present moment civilized nations are unnecessarily maintaining many slaughterhouses for killing innocent animals
- At the present moment in India the presidential offices are occupied by many so-called brahmanas, but the state maintains slaughterhouses for killing cows and makes propaganda against Vedic civilization
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- For the last two thousand years, they could not change that policy. And they are claiming "civilized" They could not follow Jesus Christ's instruction. It is two thousand years. And they are maintaining slaughterhouse. Hmm? What do you think?
- Four kinds of sinful activities: illicit sex, and intoxication, and unnecessary killing of animals, and gambling. This . . . all the slaughterhouses of the world are being maintained unnecessarily. That is recruiting simply sins
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- If a civilized man kills animals regularly in a slaughterhouse to maintain his so-called civilization, using scientific methods and machines to kill animals, one cannot even estimate the suffering awaiting him
- If the ksatriyas, they want to eat meat, they can be allowed on particular occasions. But they must go to the forest and kill the animal. Not that for meat-eating regular slaughterhouses should be maintained. This is all nonsense, degradation
- If the slaughterhouse are closed, then immediately seventy-five-percent meat-eating will be stopped. They maintain slaughterhouse, that is the most sinful activity
- If you maintain slaughterhouses then you have to suffer the consequence, because in the law of nature, there is no distinction between one life to another
- In Kali-yuga, due to the increase of the modes of passion and ignorance, almost all men are asuric, or demoniac; therefore they are very much fond of eating flesh, and for this end they maintain various kinds of animal slaughterhouses
- In the West, slaughterhouses are maintained without restriction, and therefore every fifth or tenth year there is a big war in which countless people are slaughtered even more cruelly than the animals
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- Now the meat-eating is meant for the sixth-class, seventh-class men who does not know, who remain naked, and they can neither produce food neither cloth in the jungle. It is for them. They also were not very much expert to maintain a slaughterhouse
- Nowhere is it said that one can maintain a slaughterhouse in the name of temple worship and daily kill animals unnecessarily
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- One can produce many nice preparations to offer Krsna - grain, fruit, flowers and milk. Why should one indulge in unnecessary meat-eating and maintain horrible slaughterhouses? What is the use of smoking and drinking tea and coffee?
- One cannot continue killing animals and at the same time be a religious man. That is the greatest hypocrisy. Jesus Christ said, "Do not kill," but hypocrites nevertheless maintain thousands of slaughterhouses while posing as Christians
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- Samah sarvesu bhutesu: you look upon all living beings equally. Then you cannot maintain slaughterhouses. If you maintain slaughterhouses and disobey the order of Christ in the Bible - "Thou shall not kill" - and you proclaim yourself a Christian
- Suna means unnecessarily killing the animals. Just like slaughterhouse. You cannot maintain slaughterhouse in the human society and at the same time you want peace. It is not possible
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- The Aryans never maintain slaughterhouses, and they are never enemies of poor animals
- The Bible says, "Thou shall not kill," and the Christian people are killing, maintaining slaughterhouse. What is this? This is my question. How they'll understand God if they are so much implicated in sinful activities
- The demoniac in this world are the greatest enemies of the cows, for they maintain hundreds and thousands of slaughterhouses
- The so-called mercifulness showed by the philanthropists, humanitarians, that is all false. They are humanitarian, but they maintain slaughterhouse. What is this humanitarian?
- Then, being mad, they (those influenced by passion and ignorance involved with wine, women & gambling) maintain big slaughterhouses or occasionally go on pleasure excursions to kill animals
- There is sometimes agitation against cruelty to animals, but at the same time regular slaughterhouses are always maintained. A Vaisnava is not like that. A Vaisnava can never support animal slaughter or even give pain to any living entity
- They are advertising prevention of cruelty, and they are maintaining thousands of slaughterhouses. You see? That is another foolishness. They are regularly cruel to animals, and they are making a society
- They give this example that "You also kill vegetable, just this grass blade is broken. It is killed. So it is equal to maintaining a big slaughterhouse." You see? This is going on, under the name of re . . . they are Christian nuns
- This is very nice argument, that in the jungle there are carnivorous animals, but they don't maintain slaughterhouse. Neither they attack unless they are hungry
- Those who are a little religious kill animals in temples, mosques or synagogues, and those who are more fallen maintain various slaughterhouses
- Those who are killing cows, maintaining slaughterhouse, they are lowest of the mankind. They are not human being. Less than animal. They have no gratitude
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- We can hardly imagine the sufferings of one who maintains a slaughterhouse. He endures suffering not only in this life, but in his next life also
- We have created a society for killing cows and eating the meat and maintaining slaughterhouse, in the name of religion. This is going on
- When demoniac persons engage in animal-killing, the demigods, or devotees of the Lord, are very much afflicted by this killing. Demoniac civilizations in this modern age maintain various types of slaughterhouses all over the world
- When people are demoniac in spirit, they are not merciful toward the poor animals. Consequently, they maintain various animal slaughterhouses. This is technically called suna, or himsa, which means the killing of living beings
- Why they should maintain slaughterhouse, and do not think that they are not sinful, and still they want to be happy without caring for God? That is lack of brain
- Why this system of religion is going on, maintaining slaughterhouse? That means there was no attempt to preach sad-dharma, real dharma. Therefore, in the name of religion they are maintaining thousands of slaughterhouse. You see? It is asad-dharma
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- You are maintaining so many slaughterhouses, and when it will be mature, there will be war, the wholesale murder
- You can kill one insignificant animal, like pigs or goats. It has not very much use. You kill it in your home, before your children and family, and eat. The government may not have any objection. But why should you maintain slaughterhouses?
- You cannot maintain slaughterhouse in the human society and at the same time you want peace