Either you are vegetarian or nonvegetarian, it doesn’t matter. You become Krishna conscious.’ That is our mission.

Prabhupada walked around Magic Island again, discussing vegetarianism, among other things. He also brought up the subject during his short class on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.2, explaining where it fits in with our philosophy. “Sometimes this morning we were talking about vegetarian and nonvegetarian. Our mission is not to make a nonvegetarian a vegetarian. No. Our mission is that ‘Either you are vegetarian or nonvegetarian, it doesn’t matter. You become Krishna conscious.’ That is our mission. To become vegetarian is not very good qualification. It is better than the nonvegetarian, but that is not the ultimate solution. The ultimate solution is when you become a lover of God. So we are not preaching this vegetarianism.”