Prabhupāda: He have to accept so much dowry, how many thousands horses?
Girirāja: Fifteen thousand.
Prabhupāda: So who will take dowry like this? (laughing) And how many? Four hundred elephants. Who can maintain four hundred elephants? Nowadays horses and elephants are not selling because nobody can maintain. Yes.
Yaśomatīnandana: Only the zoos.
Prabhupāda: Yes. (break) ...animal-eaters, later on, they will not find animals to eat. They will eat themselves. Because animals are not being maintained, they may be, according to Darwin's theory, extinct.
Satsvarūpa: In the US and everywhere they maintain them just for slaughter. So will that dwindle out?
Prabhupāda: Yes, slaughtering, slaughtering. When there will be no more, where this question of slaughtering?
Yaśomatīnandana: Yes. When there are no more animals, where will reproduce?
Prabhupāda: They maintain elephant also for slaughtering?
Satsvarūpa: No.
Yaśomatīnandana: When I was in America I heard last year there was a beef shortage. There was a meat shortage.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Meat shortage, yes.
Yaśomatīnandana: They import a lot of beef from Australia.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Go on reading.
Indian man: Here also scarcity will start. Slaughtering means... (break)