Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Perfect economics.
Prabhupāda: Yes. We require the skin, that's a fact. And you want to eat, all right, eat.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Could such a thing be done in India today also?
Prabhupāda: No, why it will be done? Everywhere it should be done. Who does not eat meat? That is the . . . First of all, you try this. From economic point of view, why one thing should be wasted?
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Practical preaching.
Hari-śauri: We can't stop meat-eating, but we can stop the unnecessary slaughter of animals.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: That would be a great step forward.
Prabhupāda: So our business is to stop slaughter. Meat-eating we cannot stop. Certain persons, they must eat. They are fourth-class and then fifth-class men. There are four classifications—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra and caṇḍāla. Caṇḍālas, they will remain, and they are eating. So let them eat meat. That is the system in India still. It is not that in India nobody's eating meat. The cobbler class, they eat; the caṇḍāla class, they eat.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: Even cows, cow flesh.
Prabhupāda: Dead. This cow killing has been introduced by these Britishers.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: Christian philosophy.
Prabhupāda: Christians.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: I saw in Juhu the Christians.
Hari-śauri: Now even they're exporting beef from India.
Prabhupāda: Yes. They can do anything, take the dead cows. I do not know if there is any chemical composition change. They are eating so many dead animals. Take for fish. The fish is never killed alive, because as soon as you take it out from water, it is dead, after few minutes.
Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: And they don't consider if it's a young fish or an old fish.
Dhṛṣṭadyumna: If that was the system, people will not get sick. They will not get sick from eating old animals.
Prabhupāda: No, no. This is all wrong conception.