Flies - vedicly pure or not

[Guest guest]

Dear Conference,

 

I have an issue here on the outskirts of Buenos Aires which is somewhat of a

problem - flies.

 

Both the reform group and ISKCON farms, which are near to each other, are based

in areas where there is a high concentration of industrialised chicken and pig

farms. As environmental regulations here are frequently ignored, this means

that flies are like a plague. One eats outside and flies come in their masses

and cover the plate, practically as one is eating.

There is this understanding amongst the devotees that flies do not spread

disease, as it is said they do not by some vedic literature that I have never

seen.

On the other hand, visitors find it abominal for in no cases do we protect the

areas with mesh or use other protective methods.

 

So, my question is two-fold:

1) Do flies pass diseases as believed in the West, or not, as supposodely

claimed in the Vedas?

2) Other than flie meshes, what other methods can be used on the farm, not in

the pig and flie places (as there is nothing we can do there), like burning

plant oils with citronella?

 

Thank you.

 

Gopananda dasa