Prabhupāda: Huh? In the Koran also it is said, yes, that animals are under the control of man. That is naturally. Just like . . .
Indian man: (indistinct) . . . they say it is for the purpose of eating. Fish are created for the purpose of eating.
Prabhupāda: That is also in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also, that jīvo jīvasya jīvanam (SB 1.13.47). That we also accept. But just like jīvo jīvasya jīvanam, then why don't you eat your own son? He is also jīva. Why do you discriminate? Therefore discrimination is the better part of valor. We should know, we are also eating the vegetables. What kind of jīva, living entity, we shall eat, that is to be discriminated. Not that because the one living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean I shall eat my own son. I am father. We do not do that. Because we use our discrimination.
Similarly, in the human form of life there should be discrimination. We have to eat. We have to eat . . . (indistinct) . . . discrimination means vicāra, vicāra, that what kind of food I shall eat. Suppose the hogs, they eat stool. Does it mean because the stool is also food, I shall eat that? That is discrimination. If you say that everything is food, then why don't you eat stool? One man's food, another man's poison. That is . . . what is to be eaten, what is not to be eaten, that is discrimination . . . (indistinct) . . . now our discrimination is, because human life is meant for becoming God conscious, Kṛṣṇa conscious, so we have to act in God consciousness . . . (indistinct) . . . we have taken vow that we shall eat the remnants of foodstuff, prasādam, from Kṛṣṇa. Now, what Kṛṣṇa wants?
Kṛṣṇa says patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati (BG 9.26). Kṛṣṇa says, "Give Me vegetable, water. Anyone who offers Me in devotion." So we have to eat Kṛṣṇa prasādam. Although . . . (indistinct) . . . are meant for eating by the man. That is stated in the . . . (indistinct) . . . Ahastāni sahastānām apadāni catuṣ-padām (SB 1.13.47). Ahastāni, they haven't got hands. Ahastāni . . . (indistinct) . . . sahastānām . . . (indistinct) . . . when we when we) they are food of the human being . . . (indistinct) . . . so ahastāni sahastānām apadāni . . . (indistinct) . . . those who cannot walk. Just like the creepers, grass and vegetables. Catuṣ-padām. They're food for the four-legged. Phalgūni jīvo jīvasya jīvanam . . . (indistinct)