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Gauranga Prema Dasa Becasue Srila Prabhupada's
orders are being blantantly
and offensively disobeyed,
this is indubitably our duty:

Srila Prabhupada Letter
to Niranjana, August 29,
1972:

......there is offensive behavior
to the pure devotees you may
become like Nrsimhadeva
and punish them severely.

Srimad-Bhagavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 14
Text 32]

Purport

One should not at any time tolerate blasphemy
and insults against devotees......a pure devotee
immediately be

Hare Krishna!

Many arguments are made in this respect, that as long as we don't cut the animal we do not incur sin.

In the Mahabharata, there is a verse which states that one who sells the animal, one who buys the animal, one cuts the animal,one who cooks the animal, one who serves the animal and one who eats the animal, all are bound equally by the chain of Karma.

But leaving the spiritual aspect of it, anatomically, the human body is not structured to eat animal flesh. Studies have shown the length of the intestine of a tiger is 4 times the length of it's torso so when it eats flesh the toxins in the flesh are not kept for long in the intestine and are expelled at the earliest. Also the concentration of acid secreted in the stomach is so strong that it burns the bacteria in the flesh. While in the cow, the length of the intestine is 12 times it's torso and so the food takes longer time to be expelled from the body. We have seen that the incidence of the Mad Cow disease (bovine spongi