Prabhupāda: You can live even without table and chair.
Reporter: Oh, yes.
Prabhupāda: But if you live without God consciousness, then immediately you become to the status of animals. Because they live without God consciousness.
Reporter: Yes. Are there any animals which you regard as sacred? I know in the Hindu faith, where the, erm . . .
Prabhupāda: No, this is for everyone. But others, they have no brain. Just like cow. We drink cow's milk . . .
Reporter: Yes.
Prabhupāda: . . . therefore she is our mother. So how can you kill your mother? Can you?
Reporter: No.
Prabhupāda: Then how you kill cows? Because milk you drink. Is that very a gentleman's philosophy?