Reporter (1): Swamiji, why do you prohibit this tea or coffee also?
Prabhupāda: Because it is sinful.
Reporter (1): It is sinful?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Why should you eat meat?
Reporter (6): What about onions...?
Prabhupāda: Yes, onions is also very agitating.
Reporter (1): Sir, why are they sinful? Why are they sinful?
Prabhupāda: What sinful?
Reporter (1): Why is it sinful to take tea or coffee?
Prabhupāda: Because you get intoxication. If you are habituated to take tea, as soon as in your time you don't take, you'll become mad.
Reporter (1): You mean this dependency is bad...
Prabhupāda: Yes, why should we...?
Reporter (1): ...or this tea itself is bad?
Prabhupāda: If your mind is agitated for something, then you become dependent on that thing. That is the position. Those who are taking tea, they have become so much dependent on tea.
Reporter (1): But if I start talking milk I will be equally dependent on milk, sir.
Prabhupāda: No, no. No, milk will not. Milk, you take little milk once; that will satisfy.
Reporter (5): What he says that if he starts taking milk regularly, he'll become dependent. He'll become...
Prabhupāda: So that you are dependent, must eat something. But you must eat something which is favorable for you. Eatable, everything is eatable. The stool is also eatable. That does not mean you, human being, you go to eat stool. That is meant for the pigs, hogs. You are not hogs and pigs. But if you become, if you try to become pigs and hogs, then you can become. No discrimination of food means pigs and hogs. And God will give chance to become a hog next life.