Prabhupāda: Hmm. The technology is here in the teeth. (laughter) God has given.
Śyāmasundara: Yes. You'll have to eat the whole thing.
Prabhupāda: Yes, you have to eat. That is the technology.
David Lawrence: Perhaps a parrot's beak would be a very good thing to grow.
Prabhupāda: So give them this . . . you use your technology.
David Lawrence: Thank you. You know, I think that later on it may well happen, you know.
(eating) Our boys don't eat meat, anyway. They eat baked beans the whole time. We have a generation in our country who could eat virtually anything, but they insist on sugar drinks and baked beans. Have you come across these strange English things, baked beans? Most peculiar.
Prabhupāda: Baked beans?
Śyāmasundara: Baked beans.
Prabhupāda: What is that?
Śyāmasundara: Beans . . .
Devotee: Haricot beans, put them in a tomato sauce.
David Lawrence: Haricot beans.
Śyāmasundara: In the oven.
David Lawrence: This is one of the English spiritual journeys. You know, they believe this is one of the greatest things to do, don't they?
Prabhupāda: Sometimes invite them all and give them prasādam. Nice boys.
Śyāmasundara: Have them all out here, yeah. (break)
Prabhupāda: You just work little, produce your food, eat, and save time, and try to understand Kṛṣṇa. This is the nature's arrangement. Anywhere, any part of the world, you can produce your food. Simply you require a little land and some cows.
Everything is complete. You take milk from the cows and just till the field and get some food grains. That is sufficient. Whole economic question solved. And save time for developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is the arrangement.
David Lawrence: It was interesting to see a recent television program in this country . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes.
David Lawrence: . . . on farming, and it was talking about the so-called modern methods of farming which have destroyed the earth in this country, really, in great areas. And it showed an Englishman and his son who believe in the old methods, with cows on the land. And he is not only doing better economically, but he was so happy. The two men were so happy.
Prabhupāda: Yes.
David Lawrence: They were just working with nature, not against nature.
Prabhupāda: Just like so much field is there. You, if you take the all village people, you can produce enough food for them in this village. So much land is lying there. Simply you keep cows and till ground, get your food grains. Enough. And if you take the whole planet as it is, you can feed ten times population. There is so much prospect. Australia, Africa, so much vacant land. You can produce enough quantity of milk and food grains.
David Lawrence: Yes, I think this was the clinching argument in this program . . .
Prabhupāda: But they are doing . . . what they are doing? They're taking the milk and slaughtering the animal and sending to foreign countries for trade. New Zealand, Australia, they are doing that. Just see.
David Lawrence: Or they're throwing down the surplus milk down coal mines.
Prabhupāda: Eh?
David Lawrence: They throw surplus milk down coal mines.
Prabhupāda: That's it.
David Lawrence: When there are people without any . . .
Prabhupāda: How they are wasting! You see? And they're putting the overstocked grain into the sea, America.
David Lawrence: Dumping tomatoes, bananas, all these things.
Prabhupāda: What kind of civilization? And producing Nixon on the head. (laughter) Just see.