Good civilization: locally produced food

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

In Virginia, it has proved very successful. We are getting eight hundred pounds
of milk daily. So that milk product is sufficient for give them nutritious
food. We are preparing ghee. Just like in India, they utilize milk so nicely.
And vegetables we are growing. They are making sweetmeats, sandesa, rasagulla.
There is enough milk product. And ghee, luci, puri. Very satisfying. So that is
the basic principle.

They do not go outside for bread. That is the new thing. Here, at the present
moment, in every big, big city, they are coming from hundred miles to the
office. Now there was railway strike in Bombay. I was there at that time. Oh,
people are suffering so much. You see? From five o'clock in the morning, they
are standing in queue for catching one, not bus, it is truck. The buses on
strike. So people are so much in difficulty. And if one train or two train was
running, so many people smashed the... They were on the top of the train. So
the problem is why one should be induced to go hundred miles off from his home
for earning his livelihood? This is a very bad civilization. One must have his
food locally. That is good civilization.

Guest (5): Yeah. What do these people do for a living? Only grow food?

Prabhup?da: No. Grow food for eating, and then they read all these books. They
become spiritually advanced. That's all. Deity worship.


Lecture at World Health Organization - Geneva, June 6, 1974