Animals are also citizens of the state!

Verse 1.17.10-11 (Saci Suta Prji):

* Srila Prabhupada has stated many important points here:
- Any living being who takes birth in a state has the primary right to live under the protection of the king.
- The law of God, who has created the law that a living being subsists by eating another living being. The Isopanisad directs that one should live by the direction of the Lord and not at one's sweet will.
- People will be happy when the animals, who are also the citizens of the state, are well cared for.
* Standard is to follow the scriptures.
* When vegetables, grains, fruits are available for the human beings, why kill animals. It is to be done otherwise, only when there is no other way of subsistence.
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* Story of the hamburger - lady saying it as in human for tying the dog, but ate an hamburger in the afternoon.
* Krishna himself says in the BG: patram puspam phalam toyam.
* Food consists of two parts
- gross part - grains etc
- subtle part - is the taste of the food
* The Lord accepts the subtle part of the food and leaves the gross for us.
* Just as an elephant consumes a wood apple!
* That is Prasadam is the direct mercy of the Lord.