Dr. Patel: I don't mind you call me a Buddhist or a fool, but I won't kill an animal, being a Vaiṣṇava myself.
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but the thing is that you may not like something, but you cannot decry the authority of the Vedas.
Dr. Patel: This is not decrying the authority of Vedas, sir . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes, yes.
Dr. Patel: . . . excuse me, I will bring the Vedas before you. These I have studied.
Prabhupāda: You can manufacture your own way . . .
Dr. Patel: I'm not manufacturing. I'm not manufacturing. Nowhere Vedas say you kill the animals and eat them away. They, our forefathers were so clever as to kill them and bring them living again.
Prabhupāda: Every sacrifice, every sacrifice there is written injunction of Vedic . . .
Dr. Patel: Sacrificing means you're sacrificing your own . . .
Prabhupāda: You may mean something, but actually, that is not the meaning. That is the difference. You may mean something. You may not like. The point is that you may follow. In the Vedas there are different ways, but you cannot decry the authority of the Vedas. That is the point.
Dr. Patel: The ideal Vaiṣṇava will not say this. Ideal Vaiṣṇava. Even Vedas say to kill an animal anytime, I won't. I won't kill it, I won't eat it. I'll not eat—even in England as a student of London University—meat.
Prabhupāda: I'm recommending you to eat meat?
Dr. Patel: No, you eat the . . . indirectly so.
Prabhupāda: Alright.
Dr. Patel: I'm very sorry.