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Srila Prabhupada, Detroit, July 16, 1971: […] So the conclusion is that anyone who is born in this land, he gets nationality. But why we should refuse nationality to the poor animals? This is called ignorance. He is also… But we have made concoction, law, that “Animal has no soul.”
Why it is, it has no soul? What is the difference between you and animal? You eat; the animal eats. You sleep; the animal sleeps. You have sex life; the animal has sex life. You also try to defend yourself and the animal also tries to defend himself.
So ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, these four principles, bodily demand, are similar to the animal and to the man. So why the animals should be denied nationality?
It is not that because they are less intelligent they should be denied nationality. No. Just like a father has got four boys. Not that everyone is of the same intelligence. But does the father give less protection to the less intelligent son? No. The protection, the family protection, is equal for everyone.
These are the conception, bhagavata community, equal right to everyone, even to the animals. That is Krishna consciousness. Full Lecture
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