E numbers... and Varnashram Development

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Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

 

What you say sounds good, but my experience with devotee-made products has

often been that the devotees cheat as much as or more than the karmis

because "You can do anything for Krishna," even cheat other devotees.

 

If you investigate the matter, I think you will find that the reason

devotees buy Neem toothpaste is not to save the five rupees but because they

do not have confidence in devotee-made products. They are afraid that they

will pay five rupees more to get something not as good as what they would

get on the outside.

 

How do you expect the devotees to worry about aluminum when the cakes that

are offered to the Deities and served in the temples are made with baking

powder that contains aluminum because it is cheaper than the other kind?

 

Devotee businesses have a bad reputation among devotees, and for a good

reason. Devotees see that the businesses are often set up fast, use

unskilled workers at starvation wages, sell shoddy products at high prices,

and then fold after someone has either made a nice profit or lost

everything.

 

So the first thing you have to do is to get the confidence of the devotees.

I am sure that this is the problem.

 

Your servant,

 

Umapati Swami

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> Camp: ISKCON Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, India.

>

> > I have checked out all the E numbers that are containing unoffereable

> > substances... If someone sees some that I have missed out, then please

> > add them to the list: E120 E904 ( Flees ), E234 E235 ....

>

> Depends on what you consider unofferable. If being non vegetarian is the

> only criteria, than your list looks pretty ok. But if all kinds of

> artificial garbage from the "food" industry should not be used, because it

> is nor fit to be offered to Krishna and if offered to the spiritual master

> and then eaten makes the devotees sick, than this list is rather

> incomplete. With a few exceptions most of these E numbers are not meant to

> enhance the food quality but the profits of the industry by making the

> food look better as it is or having longer shelf life.

>

> Food with lots of E-numbers are always industrial food and to eat

> industrial food is not what SP wanted us, nor did he want it to be offered

> to deities nor do I want devotees to eat it since I am every day

> confronted with so many people who get very sick from this chemicals.

> Asthma, allergies and hundred of diseases which you might not think about

> are triggered by the numerous and harmless sounding poisons in the food

> which accumulate in the body with every bite of industrial food we take.

>

> Our goal as sentient beings in contrast to brainwashed consume zombis is

> to minimize the consumption of industrial junk food, and not - like many

> devotees are practicing - try to find the loopholes so that we can justify

> the consumption of as much garbage as possible.

>

> Industrial food is only processed with one motive and that is to get as

> much as profit as possible. One of the new services I just got is to build

> up the production of devotee made products such as food stuffs, cosmetics

> and other useful and natural products in Mayapur. But as long as devotees

> rather buy the 5 Rupees extra cheep NEEM Toothpaste which was analyzed in

> Calcutta and found to be preserved with FORMALDEHYDE** and rather use

> ALUMINIUM*** containing salt and CYSTIN** ** containing white flour from

> the karmis, instead of devotee made products, what is the use to produce

> anything. If not even our own man understand, that they should life in

> harmony with nature rather than in harmony with the industrial interests,

> it is very difficult to establish self sufficiency.

>

> We need you, dear devotees, to support devotee projects by reconsidering

> the values of pure, devotee made products and foodstuffs. How should the

> communities flourish and devotees get implement in devotee projects when

> we rather buy from anywhere else for what reason ever.

>

> My policy is to try to only buy from devotees and only if i cant get from

> them and I really need it I will buy from someone else. But as I can see

> again and again there are many devotees who don't even think about this

> important factor which is so much needed in our society.

>

> Your servant,

> Ugresa das

>

> ---

> ** Formaldehyde: One of the most allergy producing and toxic substances.

> Forbidden in the west for a long time but still used like DDT and other

> dangerous chemicals, extensively in many parts of the world.

>

> *** Aluminium salts are added to table salts and backing powders as anti

> caking agents although the connection of Aluminium and Alzheimer disease

> is well known. The foolish argument of some devotees is that; I am eating

> it all the while and I feel well. But lets see how well he will feel when

> he is 70 and in a wheal chair and equipped with the intelligence of a

> rotten cauliflower like other Alzheimer patients. And belief me then its

> not only to late to blame the industry but they will not pay a cent for

> you anyway, they never did.

>

> ** ** Cystin: Amino acid from human hair (usually from the third world,

> and India) used as a anti sticking agent in flour.