Prabhupāda: From that point of view, you can kill lower animals. Why should you kill mother?
Cardinal Danielou: Oui, oui. Mother. Man . . . mother as human being is not the same that . . .
Prabhupāda: And it is not moral. Even if you kill animals for maintaining your . . . allowing that, there are many other, hundreds and thousands of animals. So if you at all require, people eat also hogs; sometimes, in wartime, they ate dogs also. And there are persons, they regularly eat dogs in Korea. They eat dogs regularly. So even animal killing is necessary for . . .
Cardinal Danielou: Yes, yes, yes, it is . . .
Prabhupāda: . . . for eating, then at least the mother animal should not be killed. That is from moral point of view.
Cardinal Danielou: Yes, from moral point of view . . .
Prabhupāda: So our point of view is that we don't allow killing any animal. Our Kṛṣṇa says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati (BG 9.26). Kṛṣṇa says: "Vegetable, fruits, milk, grains, all these things should be offered to Me with devotion. And you should take the remnants of the foodstuff." So we take prasādam. And Kṛṣṇa says, "Give Me foodstuff prepared from this group." That we do. Accepting that the fruits, they have got life. But fruits are by nature . . . there are many fruits, it is offered by the tree for eating. The tree's not killed.
So we accept this philosophy also that a, one animal, one living entity is meant for being food for another living entity. Jīvo jīvasya jīvanam (SB 1.13.47). That we also accept. But that does not mean—one living entity is the food for another living entity—that does not mean I can kill my mother, my child . . . that is not . . . so at least this must be taken into consideration that cows, innocent, they give us milk, we take its milk, and we kill in regular slaughterhouse, this is not very good thing. It is sinful.