cruelty in bullock training

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Dear Niscala prabhu,

 

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

glories to your service to Krsna's cows.

 

If your account is true, it is indeed shocking.

 

Based on recent experience, realistically I do not believe that you will

get any timely response from the GBC to help your situation. It has been

five months since the 14 Murari cows were sold to slaughter and the

Executive Committee still has not issued any statement. If you have to

wait five months for the Executive Committee to help you, your oxen will

probably be dead.

 

Recommendation: Chant your rounds with great focus. Pray to Lord

Nrsimhadeva to rescue the oxen. Try to be humble enough to act exactly as

He wants you to.

 

We will also be chanting Hare Krsna and praying to Lord Nrsimhadeva.

 

He will definitely help you. Again, thank you for all your service to

Srila Prabhupada's movement.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

 

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Noelene Hawkins wrote:

 

> [Text 2787639 from COM]

>

> Dear Vaisnavas,

> Recently on our farm here, I noticed way down the back of the

> property, two of our bullocks, Vyasa and Deva, chained together so tightly

> that there

> was no way they could lie down. The chain on Deva was so tight that it was

> digging

> into his neck. As it was a long way off, and to get to them you had to get

> through 4

> padlocked fences, I doubted that they were getting periodicly unchained, and

> so I

> asked the farm manager what was the story. He said they had been that way

> for a

> week, without unchaining. This is so cruel, I thought it a case for the

> RSPCA(royal

> society for the prevention of cruelty to animals), and I threatened to call

> them out the

> next day if he did not either loosen their chains so they could lie down, or

> unchain

> them at night. All I got was threats from him and the temple president, but

> when I

> went to check on the bullocks next day the chain was loosened,- they would

> have done

> so probably, to not get convicted by the RSPCA.

> Since then I have been told by a

> bullock-trainer that the maximum accepted length of time to keep bullocks

> chained up

> is 3 days if they are watched constantly. This was quoted from "the bullock

> drivers

> handbook", but by practical experience we have seen that the cruel practice

> of keeping

> bullocks chained up for long periods can lead to their deaths. 4 have died

> from this

> practice so far at our farm New Govardhana. One was traumatized so much from

> being

> bullied by the other one, he lost the will to live, two wandered down to the

> creek to

> have a drink and happened to go either side of a flying-fox cable, they

> slipped

> downwards and were hung, choked to death on their chains. The fourth one is

> thought

> to have died from the one he was tied to not allowing him to drink water

> (which quite

> often happens, that's why the 3-day limit is set). Also two disappeared.

> These bullocks

> here at New Gokula are in a paddock where they have to go down a steep bank

> to get

> to water. If one slipped they both could break their legs. If you think

> this is

> unacceptable, cruel and potentially dangerous, then please put it on this

> com, or write

> to me personally, and I will forward your message along with protests from

> our local

> devotees to try to stop this practice. What is the cow ministry's opinion of

> this? Please

> help if you can,ys, niscala

> *bullock means ox

> ** As of the 13th November, they had been chained one week, according to the

> farm

> manager. So you can calculate from that how long they have been chained.

>

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