What are these succesful models?

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PAMHO Syam,

 

Sorry if I misquoted you, but fine, let's take up your point.

 

"We should be open to 'positive progressive development' and find farming

systems based on our principles that are applicable to 21st century

developed world living places. Our Cow protectors need succesful models to

follow and aspire to. Now the question what are these succesful models?"

 

Firstly, it is my belief that this is the most crucial question the

conference must address. As it has forbidden cow-milk protection as a go-alone

enterprise, then it must take the bull by the horns, both metaphorically and

literally speaking, and work out how to bridge the gap between the seemingly

impassible divide of Western economic realities and cow protection ideals.

Whilst Hrimati may well be more than right about her situation in India, this

is far removed from realities in the West. Also MM is right that we are

prepared to do many things for whatever cause we put our will power, but the

point is if there is a will there is a way - but what is the way?

 

Should not the conference be putting all its efforts into finding this way

instead of drifting in the red-herring land of future unknown oil-crises?

The current economic model may well exist for centuries more, or not. But we

can not rely on the outside factors for the salvation to these issues. We must

put our will power into answering the aforementioned question proposed by

Syamasundar prabhu, a most formidable cow protecion devotee.

 

What are these succesful models?

 

Surely, as with the cow protection standards, there should be a development

model for ox-powered cropping. If not, then we are just allowing cow protecion

to flounder in the swamps of ideological purity and inaction due to hesitation

about how to make the seemingly impossible possible.

 

One day we must make this a reality, not just a nice ideal.

 

Serving in the best way I know how to, though however imperfectly,

 

Gopa

 

 

Gopananda wrote

>What Syamasundar prabhu was saying is that ox-powered cropping is no way

>economically feasilbe in today´s economic environment.

 

I was not saying that it was not economically feasible in todays economic

environment only that you cannot do the same thing as your neighbour who

farms conventionaly or with a tractor.

 

It is economically feasible to do ox powered cropping if one markets it as a

premium product. Now in reality it most likely will mean that you have to

take the products one or more steps further than your neighbour. In other

words if you can make bread and sell the bread made from your ox produced

wheat then it is more feasible.

 

I would be very concerned about a farming system that uses the principles of

cow protection as its selling point and yet has not worked out how to use

the oxen. If the oxen are not making a living by themselves and 'earning

their chow' as one devotee put it then how on earth will people pay the huge

price of milk needed to support the entire herd?

 

We should be open to 'positive progressive development' and find farming

systems based on our principles that are applicable to 21st century

developed world living places. Our Cow protectors need succesful models to

follow and aspire to. Now the question what are these succesful models?

 

yssyam

 

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