Guest guest Posted April 6, 2001 Report Share Posted April 6, 2001 Good day, My name is Mark Chatburn and I represent a group called VEDA - the Vegetarian Enviromental Development Association. We are working in partnership with ISKCON and IVU (International Vegetarian Union) groups to formulate a commercially viable model of cow protection. The name we have given to this endeavour is Protection Farms - for the profitable lifetime protection of farm animals. Its nature is essentially secular to appeal to business investors and consumers alike from all walks of life. Mahatma Ghandi claimed that cow protection was the greatest gift that Hinduism can give to the world. Yet, although the percentage of vegetarians in countries like the UK has increased to 10%, there is still no system of farm animal protection in place in the developed countries. This is due to history and the fact that the new paradigms have yet to manifest themselves on the physical plane. It can not be good enough to just be vegetarian, one must also consume from and support a farming system that has at its heart the moral values that vegetarianism demands. To consume milk products form the same system that produces meat, involves the compromise of allowing slaughter within the food-providing process. Also, crops produced via intensive agriculture or organic agriculture relies on the petro-industrial framework, not on a simpler process using intermediate draft-powered technology. I enter this discussion forum in the hope that a debate on this issue can be engendered that will ultimately lead to the implimentation of this farming system - Protection Farms - throughout the world. Thus, along with the chanting of the names of the Lord in every town and village, so too will be heard the mooing of protected cows and other lifetime protected farm animals. Yours in the best of faith, Mark chatburn - founder VEDA Get email at your own domain with Mail. http://personal.mail./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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