Every man should produce his own food

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"COM: Samba (das) SDG (Mauritius)" wrote:

 

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> > I can certainly agree that there must have been a well rounded education

> > that included basic cow protection. It would be easy to imagine a well

> > established gurukula having both a cow or two and a garden. Then those

> > inclined toward a carear as a Vaisya would pursue those interests further.

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> At the risk of sounding over repetitive, from research I have done, I find

> it is quite clear that in traditional societies, practicaly every family

> grew their own food. Even in the cities. Using modern natural farming, it

> has been shown that 4000 Sq feet is enough to feed a family for a year,

> using a particular natural farming method (grains in rotation with veggies).

> Most vedic cities were full of open spaces, parks gardens etc.

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> Not just vaisyas grew food.

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> YS

 

Hare Krsna dasi comments:

 

Samba prabhu, possibly you are thinking of Srila Prabhupada's Bg 13.35 lecture

from Geneva:

 

ys

hkdd

 

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Bhagavad-gita Lecture 13.35 Geneva, June 6,

1974

 

So it is my choice, to utilize this body as I like, and I also reap the result.

The same example: You are given a field, a piece of land. You can grow twice,

thrice in a year very nice foodstuff, sometimes pulses, sometimes paddy,

sometimes the mustard seed. Any land... In India, we have seen that a

cultivator

produces three, four kind of food grains in a year. That is the system...

(Aside:) Not this...

That is the system that in India every man is producing his food grains

independently. Now it is stopped. Formerly, all these men, they used to produce

their food grain.

 

So they used to work for three months in a year, and they could stock the whole

year's eatable food grains. Life was very simple. After all, you require to

eat.

So this Vedic civilization was that keep some land and keep some cows. Then

your

whole economic question is solved.

 

Now, in this country, Geneva, I heard there is... I am tasting the milk,

first-class milk. I think the world's best milk. Unless one has got his own

cows, one cannot get such nice milk. But I hear also that because there is

excess production of milk, they have decided to kill twenty-thousand cows.

Devotee: Last year, they decided to do it, but apparently they didn't do it.

They wanted to do it.

 

Prabhupada: Just see how much foolish proposal it is. So for want of God

consciousness, this mischievous intelligence can be found. The whole economic

question can be solved. If you have got excess, then you can trade, you can

send

to some place where there is scarcity. But every man should produce his own

food. That is Vedic culture. You get a piece of land and produce your family's

foodstuff.

 

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