This human life is meant for victorious, to become victorious over the laws of material nature. Actually we are trying for that purpose. The whole struggle is how to counteract the onslaught of material nature. The whole activities are going on. But what is the ultimate victory? The ultimate victory is how to conquer over birth, death, disease and old age. That is the outcome, victory.
But we have set aside, neglected this important point, and our education system is for how to eat, how to sleep, how to defend. What is . . . God is giving us to eat so many things. What your education system will improve? We are eating fruits, grains, or whatever we eat. That is given by God. Food is supplied to the animals.
The four-legged animals . . . ahastāni sahastānām. Sahastānām ahastāni (SB 1.13.47). In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavata, everything is . . . the food is there. Jīvo jīvasya jīvanam: "One living entity is the food for another living entity." Ahastāni sahastānām. Just like animals, they have got no hands, so they are food for the animals which has . . . who has got hands. We are animals with hands, and there are animals without hands. So ahastāni sahastānām. Sahasta means hand. With-hands animals, they're eating others which has no hand.
Apadāni catuṣ-padām. "And those who have no legs, they are food for the animals four-legged." Just like grass. This is also living entity, but it has no leg to move. It has leg, but it is fixed up. It cannot move. They're condemned that, "You cannot move." A tree is standing for seven thousand years. It cannot move. So they are food for moving animals. Just like cow eats grass. The goat eats grass. So apadānam catuṣ-padām.
Nūnaṁ mahatāṁ tatra. In this way the world is being exploited. The weaker section is being exploited by the stronger section. Nūnaṁ mahatāṁ tatra jīvo jīvasya jīvanam (SB 1.13.47): "One life is meant for being exploited by other life." This is nature's law. So we have no quarrel with persons who are meat-eating. But our propaganda is to make people God conscious. That's all.
So in order to become God conscious, you have to follow some rules and regulation. We do not give any credit to the vegetarians than the meat-eaters. Because one has to eat. But our proposal is, Kṛṣṇa conscious men, that we shall eat remnants of foodstuff offered to Kṛṣṇa. That is our philosophy. And Kṛṣṇa says, patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati (BG 9.26), that Kṛṣṇa says that, "Anyone who offers Me a little fruit, a little water and little leaf with devotion and love, I accept it."