Animal killing means “no justice”
It was in a small Australian country town. My first impression was that it was a health-food shop: So and So Natural Foods.
The sign in green and white conveyed freshness and lightness.
Once inside, I saw that it was in fact a butcher’s shop. Some clever butchers “go with the flow” and advertise with slogans such as “chemical free,” etc.
I made my standard presentation, during which the fairly young attendant took hold of one of my "Higher Taste” cookbooks. In butcher shops, I generally don’t mention this wonderful, karma-free Hare Krishna vegetarian cookbook for obvious reasons. But this person was very interested, and he told me that his mother is a vegetarian. For her, he purchased three vegetarian cookbooks by Kurma Prabhu.
After thanking him, I left in total amazement at the varieties of Krishna’s sometimes-contradictory arrangements. I also gave him a complimentary copy of one of Srila Prabhupada’s books as is my standard procedure: in this case, “Renunciation Through Wisdom”.
Let us remember Srila Prabhupada's words to the effect that “there is no justice when there is animal-killing.“
Here is the full passage:
“…There are two types of animal-killers. The soul is also sometimes called the 'animal' or the living being. Therefore, both the slaughterer of animals and those who have lost their identity of soul are animal-killers. Maharaja Pariksit said that only the animal-killer cannot relish the transcendental message of the Supreme Lord. Therefore if people are to be educated to the path of Godhead, they must be taught first and foremost to stop the process of animal-killing as above mentioned. It is nonsensical to say that animal-killing has nothing to do with spiritual realization….This rejection of the Vedas by Lord Buddha was adopted in order to save people from the vice of animal-killing as well as to save the poor animals from the slaughtering process of their big brothers who clamor for universal brotherhood, peace, justice and equity. There is no justice when there is animal-killing.” (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.24 purport)
