anyone know this Jagannath prabhu or We at ISKCON are manjaries

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>I was wondering who this devotees is. Is his story true. Was hoping

>someone might know him. says he changed the tape so it sounded like

>Prabhupada said he was poisoned.

 

THE BUFFALO NEWS published this about him sometimes ago; "Renowned Rock

Biographer Reincarnates As Hindu Leader." Pretty eccentric. You can read the

whole article on: http://www.vnn.org/usa/US9908/US30-4615.html. If you

cannot access to the site I can send it to you privately. Bellow are

extracts.

 

Also, you may want to read this other article from NEW YORK (Reuters), which

has an indirect link with Jagannatha, but is interesting. I will paste it at

the end of this message.

 

What follows is a sample: "However, Jack Greenberg, chairman of McDonald's,

wrote to PETA (Ethical Treatment of Animals) Friday stating his

representative did discuss an agenda and timing of a meeting

with a PETA consultant. He said despite this PETA chose to ``publicly impugn

our motives and sincerity.'' ``I am disappointed with your rhetoric, because

we at McDonald's are sincere in our desire to provide leadership in the area

of animal welfare,'' Greenberg wrote."

 

If they are sincere at McDonald's, we at ISKCON are manjaries; and

Jagannatha Dasa a funny avatar. Reading the whole article from THE BUFFALO

NEWS, you will get a better picture of him.

 

About Jagannatha Dasa.

"[...] It seems to me you should think about taking up where Prabhupada left

off and becoming a spiritual master, " Puripada said Harrison told him in

England in 1983. "It looks to me like you have the right qualifications."

(Note from Ak: Giuliano, Jagannatha Dasa and Puripada are different names

for a same individual. He has 30 disciples.)

 

Before becoming a guru, Giuliano, in his first real acting job after

graduating from State University of New York at Brockport, would become

Ronald McDonald. The lifelong vegetarian was hired as the McDonald's

hamburger spokesman throughout Canada.

 

"After a year of this, I could no longer abide the hypocrisy of being an

ethical vegetarian, yet promoting possibly the No. 1 killer of animals in

the world, " he said, meaning McDonald's.

 

In his previous incarnation, Giuliano's books included "Dark Horse: The

Private Life of George Harrison, " which Rolling Stone magazine called

"evenhanded and soundly researched."

 

His latest book, "Two of Us: John Lennon and Paul McCartney - Behind the

Myth, " has just been published by the Penguin Group. In the

acknowledgments, Giuliano thanks, among others, His Divine Grace A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

[...]

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of

Animals, which fights meat eating with graphic ads everywhere from

billboards to public bathrooms, plans to grill McDonald's over animal

welfare issues, a PETA spokesman said Monday. The group is launching a

billboard, bumper sticker, print ad and T-shirt campaign that features such

images as a slaughtered cow's head and the slogan ``Do you want fries with

that? McDonald's. Cruelty to go.'' Another shows the company's clown mascot

Ronald McDonald holding a bloodied butcher knife and reads ``Son of Ron --

America's No. 1 Serial Killer.''

 

PETA's beef with McDonald's follows what the activist group said is the

breakdown of talks with the Oakbrook, Illinois, hamburger giant over steps

McDonald's can take to reduce cruelty to animals.

 

However, Jack Greenberg, chairman of McDonald's, wrote to PETA Friday

stating his representative did discuss an agenda and timing of a meeting

with a PETA consultant. He said despite this PETA chose to ``publicly impugn

our motives and sincerity.'' ``I am disappointed with your rhetoric, because

we at McDonald's are sincere in our desire to provide leadership in the area

of animal welfare,'' Greenberg wrote.

 

PETA consultant Steve Gross answered Monday that although the McDonald's

representative ``begrudgingly'' listened to the group's issues, he had not

heard of any tangible steps the company had taken on behalf of animal

welfare.

 

Bruce Friedrich, PETA's vegetarian campaign organizer, said because of

McDonald's alleged lack of action, PETA began production of its advertising

campaign with the first two billboards scheduled to go up on Oct. 1 in

Norfolk, Virginia, where PETA is based. He said the group will also try to

place print ads in USA Today and the Chicago Tribune as well as on

billboards in Chicago, near McDonald's headquarters.