A Vaisnava Critique of Charlie Kirk’s Case for Meat Eating

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

In a recent public exchange Charlie Kirk defended eating animals on biblical, biological, and practical grounds. His points deserve a careful hearing—and a careful answer—because morality is not decided by applause lines.

Kirk begins with the claim that humans are “above cows,” so killing them is not the same as killing a person. Greater intelligence, however, has never been a moral blank check. History is full of examples—slavery, colonialism, child labor—where the strong used their advantage to exploit the weak, only for later generations to condemn it. True moral superiority means protecting the vulnerable, not breeding and killing them for taste.

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Atheistic or Theistic Veganism: Compassionate Confusion

By Ajit Krishna Dasa

You’ve got to hand it to vegans—most of them really care. They see the pain animals go through, they feel something deep inside, and they’re moved to action. That kind of empathy is rare in a world where people are often too distracted to care about anything but their own Netflix queue. From a Vaisnava perspective, this impulse to protect animals is beautiful. It’s a spark of the divine, a sign that there’s something deeper going on. But then, things start to unravel—big time—when atheism crashes the party. When you try to mix that compassion with atheism, things go sideways fast. It’s not going to work.

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