Giving up on Commercial Milk saves cows?

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Thank you for your letter and I am sorry about the delay in my reply.

 

To drink or not to drink? As you are well aware the availability of

protected milk is extremely limited or not available at all. In effect to

avoid any involvement with the slaughter industry we would have to abstain

from all milk products. If our position is to avoid anything slaughter based

then we would have to ensure that all our household items are not bound with

any animal products. I have even heard that cow products are in car

tyres!!(although I have never had it confirmed).

 

One of the reasons we cannot get protected milk is that the oxen do not have

any value. And as you know the tractor has replaced the oxen in farmimg

cultivation and the truck has replaced the ox for transportation and the

society structure is stretched over the whole country and thus the ox has no

value.

 

In order to give emphasis on the ox and thus avoid slaughterhouse involvment

we should avoid any foods that are not grown by oxen and indeed we should

perhaps avoid anything modern that is produced in deferrence to the working

of an ox. In other words if we want a position of non involvement in animal

slaughter it will require a complete life overhaul. As you will remember

srila Prabhupada wanted the devotees to live a life of simplicity based on

the cows and oxen. For those who seriously want to avoid slaughterhouse

involvement it seams this lifestyle is the only remedy. Now it seams in

practice that persons seam to like the ideal of simple living however they

would prefer somebody else to live it for them.

 

For the vast majority of practicioners it would seam that the best practice

would be to be a devotee and offer all of their food and indeed everything

else to Lord Krishna otherwise without a doubt all their activities will

have some slaughter house implication and thus karmic reaction.

 

I do not think that devotees giving up on milk will actually help any cows

and I do not think it will help establish farm communities based on cow

protection. It seams to me that a better approach is that enunciated by one

devotee where individuals purify their milk by supporting cow protection by

paying the extra money they would be paying for protected milk.

 

I would value your comments on the above

 

Ys syam

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(production can make impact, get the ball rolling. )

 

This is the phrase for the beggining of hell.... and abuse.. This is a non

profit deal.... Not a marketing scheme; nor a Money making agenda; ..... It is

a way of life....!! The schools are already there.... Balabhadra has and

there are others like in MI... which is a simple house with a couple barns and

some land....... THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE, NOT A

BUSINESS..........................

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