Prabhupāda: We are not distinguished that, "Vegetable-eating is nice, meat-eating is not nice." No. The nature's law is that you must eat, and that eating is something living. Vegetable is also living. But we are not concerned vegetarian or nonvegetarian, we are concerned with Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says: "You give Me fruits, flowers, grains," we offer that. If Kṛṣṇa says: "You give Me meat, chickens," we shall offer and we shall take.
Guest: What is the proper spiritual attitude toward rodents, reptiles and disease-bearing insects? What should be the proper spiritual attitude toward those?
Jayatīrtha: Insects.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "What is the spiritual attitude towards reptiles, rodents . . ."
Devotee: Disease-bearing in animals, something that is diseased and can give you a disease, what is your . . . what is the Vedic attitude towards protection from these animals?
Prabhupāda: Protection? Cleanliness. Just like if you keep your apartment very cleansed, if you keep your clothes and body very cleansed, you won't find this insect disturbing you. Just like the flies, they go in a nasty place. So you should be cleansed. You should take protection in that way. You cannot kill them. The cockroaches, the modern method of bathroom attached in 600th floor . . . so (laughs) this is unclean. Therefore the cockroaches are born there. You see?
So if you keep yourself clean, there will be no more disturbances. The incense will keep off all insects. You make fresh food, there will be no germs. You take warm, immediately prepared, that is germicide foodstuff. But if you keep for months together in the refrigerator, that will contaminate with germ, disease.