 
 
We have to keep some cows. Never mind we are to take payment from others. That is not Cow Protection. Cow Protection means just like Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is tending the cows. He is going, taking the cows personally from His royal palace to the forest whole day, working there. Is it not, cowherd boy? And taken some little fruit, mother, whatever mother has given. They are playing that. So this is Cow Protection not that “Somebody will give money and we shall keep some third class cows and feed there and become cow protector.” We must tend the cows very nicely so that they give us sufficient milk. And with that milk we shall live.”
 
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.3.—Melbourne, April 5th, 1972)