Ok you have already agreed that drinking milk from unprotected cows supports cow killing. Srila Prabhupada has emphasised cow protection. So clearly drinking milk from unprotected cows is against the instruction of Srila Prabhupada to protect cows.



Now many people are willing to break that instruction citing he himself drank milk from unprotected cows. This is inconsistent.


Another inconsistency is that he also gave instructions to start farms and keep protected cows and use their milk exclusively.



I wish he had not allowed milk from unprotected cows to be used but he did. But clearly he did that with the idea that it was a temporary bridge to the time when Iskcon would be protecting their own cows and using only that milk at all the temples.



That never happened. So many devotees ignore the instructions on cow protection and doing their own cow protetion (largely, I know of some devotees that have worked hard on farm projects) but still drink commercial milk.


But never mind what Iskcon does I am asking you as an individual to take a stand against the further exploitation of cows and drink milk only from protected cows.


I would add that it would be very helpful to support the few devotees who are hard at work engaging in self sufficient farmng and cow raising right now. Some have made heroic efforts with seemingly little help from the big wigs of the Iskcon authorities.