"Even if a devotee has to commit violence, it should not be done beyond what is necessary. Sometimes the question is put before us: âYou ask us not to eat meat, but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?â The answer is that eating vegetables is violence, and vegetarians are also committing violence against other living entities because vegetables also have life." Srimad Bhagavatam .3.29.15 Purport by Srila Prabhupada.
"Therefore, we are not propagating the philosophy of ahimsÄ, or nonviolence, because in some way or other, there is violence, either you take fruit or grain or animal. But the principle is that you have to take prasÄdam, the foodstuff which is offered to Krishna, and then eat". Lecture Boston April 26 1969.
"A Krsna conscious person does not make any distinction between species or castes. The brahmana and the outcaste may be different from the social point of view, or a dog, a cow, or an elephant may be different from the point of view of species, but these differences of body are meaningless from the viewpoint of a learned transcendentalist. " Bhagavad-gita 5.18 purport by Srila Prabhupada.
Therefore we should not market Cow Protection Milk as Ahimsa but as Natihimsrena, minimum violence.
"Even if a devotee has to commit violence, it should not be done beyond what is necessary. Sometimes the question is put before us: âYou ask us not to eat meat, but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?â The answer is that eating vegetables is violence, and vegetarians are also committing violence against other living entities because vegetables also have life." Srimad Bhagavatam .3.29.15 Purport by Srila Prabhupada.
"Therefore, we are not propagating the philosophy of ahimsÄ, or nonviolence, because in some way or other, there is violence, either you take fruit or grain or animal. But the principle is that you have to take prasÄdam, the foodstuff which is offered to Krishna, and then eat". Lecture Boston April 26 1969.
"A Krsna conscious person does not make any distinction between species or castes. The brahmana and the outcaste may be different from the social point of view, or a dog, a cow, or an elephant may be different from the point of view of species, but these differences of body are meaningless from the viewpoint of a learned transcendentalist. " Bhagavad-gita 5.18 purport by Srila Prabhupada.
Therefore we should not market Cow Protection Milk as Ahimsa but as Natihimsrena, minimum violence.