Animals possess souls and consciousness; denying this only rationalizes sinful meat-eating through rascal philosophy.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk [Partially recorded] — January 7, 1974, Los Angeles 740107MW-LOS ANGELES [10:17 Minutes] Walk_740107MW-LOS ANGELES Prabhupāda: ...although it appears that he's very stern. But he's friend.
Devotee: The criminal thinks that "Oh, he's my enemy." Prabhupāda: Eh?
Devotee: The criminal thinks, "He's my enemy." Prabhupāda: Yes. [break] They have achieved their advancement of knowledge by seeing a crack in the moon. You know that? Yes.
They are now researching, "What is this crack?" For seeing the crack, they spend so much money. Bali-mardana: They are so foolish.
Prabhupāda: Just see. Bali-mardana: When I was in Hawaii I gave a lecture at one Catholic college, and the priest in charge, he was asking me if in our philosophy we believe that animals had a soul. He's so foolish...
Prabhupāda: Eh? Bali-mardana: The Christians are so foolish, even though they have big learned positions, they do not understand that the animal also has a soul.
Prabhupāda: You told? In that meeting? Bali-mardana: Yeah.