Why keep a cow when milk is available?

How have women been liberated?

HANSADUTTA: Prabhupada, you gave the example that what is the use of keeping a cow if you can get milk in the marketplace.

PRABHUPADA: Yes. Yes. Cow-keeping is expensive.

DR. PATEL: Why keep a cow when milk is available. [laughs]
TRIVIKRAM: It's a fact. The young men think like that.

PRABHUPADA: They make pregnant and they go away. And this poor girl, either she has to kill the child or beg from the government, "Give me welfare; otherwise..." Is that freedom? These rascal women...

DR. PATEL: This is freedom. Actually the government recognized...

PRABHUPADA: Government means a set of rascals. But practical point of view the woman wants equal right. Equal rights they enjoy, and the woman becomes pregnant, and he goes away, the boy. And she has to kill the child or beg from the government. This is her freedom. And still, equal rights. Where equal right? The boy has gone away. You also go away? No. You'll have to carry the child. To get freedom you have to kill or you have to beg. And still she thinks, "I am free."