Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 114 - re Juliette de Bairacli Levy

[Guest guest]

"Taraka (das) ACBSP (Gita Nagari, PA - USA)" wrote:

 

> TRANSLATION

> For the protection of the brahmanas, the thousand-legged Supreme Being

> created us, the ksatriyas, from His thousand arms. Hence the brahmanas are

> said to be His heart and the ksatriyas His arms.

>

> PURPORT

> Ksatriyas are specifically meant to maintain the brahmanas because if the

> brahmanas are protected, then the head of civilization is protected.

> Brahmanas are supposed to be the head of the social body; if the head is

> clear and has not gone mad, then everything is in proper position. The Lord

> is described thus: namo brahmanya-devaya go-brahmana-hitaya ca. The purport

> of this prayer is that the Lord specifically protects the brahmanas and the

> cows, and then He protects all other members of society (jagad-dhitaya). It

> is His will that universal welfare work depends on the protection of cows

> and brahmanas; thus brahminical culture and cow protection are the basic

> principles for human civilization. Ksatriyas are especially meant to protect

> the brahmanas, as is the supreme will of the Lord: go-brahmana-hitaya ca.

> As, within the body, the heart is a very important part, so the brahmanas

> are also the important element in human society. The ksatriyas are more like

> the whole body; even though the whole body is bigger than the heart, the

> heart is more important.

>

> >>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 3.22.3

 

Prabhupada states " thus brahminical culture and cow protection are the basic

principles for human civilization." This is certainly true.

 

All thoughtful people, even beyond our movement recognize the importance of cow

protection.

 

Some of you may have a copy of Juliette de Bairacli Levy's book on Herbal

Cures

for Barn and Stable. Last night (August 8) PBS television ran a documentary on

her. She's now about 90 years old and had worked with Sir Albert Howard, the

"Grandfather of organic gardening." I believe possibly Radha Krsna prabhu has

also met her.

 

Anyway, she was actually live in the studio in conjunction with the airing of

the documentary on her. I was surprised how outspoken she was. She said that

the cow is her favorite animal. (She's a vegetarian.) She said that the cause

of "mad cow" disease was that the animals did not want to live anymore because

the conditions of confinement were so bad, and that where animals are treated

well, and given a good natural diet, there is no risk of mad cow or foot and

mouth disease. (Syamasundar will like to hear that.)

 

Also, both in the studio and in the documentary, she stated several times that

God was angry with mankind because of how we mistreat cows and other animals.

In the documentary, one brief segment showed footage of weakened calves being

dragged across concrete floors with chains and other such abusive treatment.

 

You could see that statements like this made the show's host a little

uncomfortable, he thought he was getting a nice old lady who would be warm and

fuzzy. "Hmmm... are there any positive things that give you some hope?"

 

But, the point is, Srila Prabhupada is always right on target when he keeps

reminding us that cow protection is one of the two most important priciples of

human civilization.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

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In case anyone is interested, here is the PBS blurb on Juliette de Bairacli

Levy:

 

JULIETTE OF THE HERBS is a portrait of the life and work of herbalist, author

and pioneer of holistic veterinary medicine, Juliette de Bairacli Levy. The

program airs on PBS as part of the March 2001 pledge drive (check local

listings).

 

For more than sixty years, Juliette has defied convention and lived among the

world's gypsies and nomads, learning and passing on the knowledge of these

people who live close to nature. Her extensive writings on herbs and their

healing properties have found a wide audience with the current renaissance of

holistic medicine. Now in her late 80s, Juliette's life story is as colorful

and exciting as her tremendous wealth of herbal knowledge.

 

Born in 1912 in England to a wealthy merchant family of Turkish and Egyptian

decent, Juliette attended the best schools in Britain. At a young age, she

decided to devote her life to the healing of animals and studied veterinary

medicine in college. It was among the lab coats and dissection equipment that

she began to feel the institution was not teaching her how to heal. She left

the university to live a more natural life and learn about "true medicine" -

herbs.

 

As Juliette traversed the globe, befriending gypsies, Bedouins and Native

Americans, many sought her advice on natural rearing and herbal healing,

including rich racehorse owners, dog breeders, famous actors and royalty.

Today, she is known as one of the foremost experts on those subjects and is

the author of several books on herbal and holistic medicine for humans and

animals, including Nature's Children and The Complete Herbal Handbook for the

Dog and Cat.

[Guest guest]

Haribol

 

My humble obeisances to Srila Prabhupada

 

I collected some pertinent facts for environmentalists & in this is

referenced the cause of the Mad cow disease- please read the following:

 

ENVIRONMENTALISTS:

 

Some Information of Interest:

 

The US Agriculture Meat & Dairy Industry are exempt from the US Clean air

act. Political Action Committee's have CLOUT!!

You & I have to tune our engines to keep pollution low & get serious fines if

we do not!!

 

The Sierra Task force on Bio Genetics put out a report & requested the then

President Clinton to require labeling on all products that are genetically

modified since sufficient testing had not been done- request was IGNORED!

Plant & animal genes are being mixed- nature is being tinkered with!!

 

The Amount of Toxic waste from the Meat & Dairy Industry is 1 BILLION

TONS/Year!! About 60% to 80% of the total toxic waste!!

 

Recent News: Dairy Farm in Peoria with 1250 cows had an open Cesspool of 40

million gallons of Excreta that overflowed by 2 million gallons & entered

the local water table. Judge fined the farmer & asked him to reduce his herd

by half!

 

The total Cattle herd in the world is 1.3 billion head.

Total weight of the animals exceeds the weight of humans on earth.

 

The Slaughter houses are required to stun the animals to make them

unconscious but Chickens are not considered animals & are literally at times

de-feathered & boiled while alive!

 

The mad cow disease should be called the Man Greed disease. Not every part of

a cow is edible or usable about 30% is not. So it is dehydrated & pellettized

& fed back to the cow. The only problem being that a cow has 4 stomachs & the

animal matter putrify in her system & caused the disease. A cow is a

herbivorous animal but got fed meat byproducts.

 

This is a billion $ industry- because of the mad cow disease it is illegal to

feed cows these pellets but is now fed to horses & other farm animals!!

 

Global warming would be reduced considerably if meat consumption became half!

World hunger would disappear: It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound

of beef, 6 pounds of grain to produce 1 pound of pork & 3 pounds of grain to

produce 1 pound of chicken.

There is enough food to feed 11 billion humans if the world were vegetarian!

 

70% of grain produced in USA is fed to animals; but is 30% of the cattle feed

the rest is chicken manure!! So think what is the food of your food! It is

NOT prairie grass!!

 

 

Your humble servant

 

Aroon

[Guest guest]

The Cow Conference!

 

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

I have been fortunate enough to be inducted into the cow conference & humbly

request that I be educated on the following issues.

 

1) I do know that Balabhadra das is the Minister for Agriculture for ISKCON.

COW protection is a fundamental tenet for Krishna consciousness, What is the

charter & mission of the Ministry & where does the Cow conference fit into

all this?

 

2) What is the mission of the COW conference?

 

3) Is the connection with the GBC through the ministry of Agriculture? Or are

any of the GBC members also members of the COW conference?

 

4) Are there any goals established for the Ministry?

 

5) Goals of the Cow conference?

 

6) Are there any agendas set up for discuission ? Is there a forum for a

meeting?

 

7) How long have these entities been in existence. The Ministry & the

Conference?

What has been accomplished to date?

 

 

Basically I am anxious to find out where we have been, what we have

accomplished & what the goals are.

 

Thank you very much for answering these questions

 

Your most humble servant

 

 

Aroon

[Guest guest]

Dear Aroon,

 

PAMHO. AGTSP.

 

Thank you very much for reminding us about your questions which are very

pertinent.

 

The cow conference has been in existence since 1993 when I set it up. I am

the conference organizer. The Minimum Cow Protection Standards were written

by this conference and are now ISKCON Law 507. There are no GBC members. In

the past we made some authorities members but they complained about the over

load of mail and eventually left the conference. The general mission of the

cow conference is to provide a forum for networking devotees and non

devotees who are interested in Cow Protection. Members may contact each

other privately, etc. The hope is that the shared knowledge will help the

cowherds in various countries. I have found over the years that the

conference thrives by me not trying to set the pace but by allowing free

discussion. Much of the discussions are printed in the ISCOWP News. I print

what is mostly practical knowledge staying away from the political. At one

point our web master was very thoroughly following the discussions and

posting them on the web page.

 

We did try at one point a separate conference for the Ministry of a select

number of people to solve specific problems but it eventually died. It

always comes back to the cow conference with its public openness (anyone can

join). My last count (June 28) was that there were 89 members from about 23

countries.

 

There has been, originating in the cow conference, pressure on a number of

authorities to shape up their goshallas in their zone of influence. In some

cases it has helped greatly but I have found that in too many cases as soon

as the pressure is not there the old ways are prevalent again. So it is like

winning the battle but not the war.

 

The Ministry was originated in the 1980s by Parmananda Prabhu. It ended a

few years later and was revitalized in 1998 with Balabhadra prabhu as the

Minister. The Ministry is unfunded. Balabhadra works a night job 8 hours

each day 5 days a week to pay our personal bills and we have a farm with 26

cows and oxen.

We also run ISCOWP, a non profit charitable organization. We are able to

collect some donations through ISCOWP but they are given primarily for the

local development of ISCOWP. We are growing and preserving much of our food.

 

The Ministry, as per ISKCON laws, is primarily

an advisory body. At present the main challenge is to bring the ISKCON

goshallas up to standard. There are a few goshallas that are well run and

moving in the right direction.

 

Although the Ministry and ISCOWP are run by the same persons, they are

separate entities. At this point the Ministry work is being supported by the

facilities of ISCOWP because there is no funding from ISKCON for the

Ministry. It is our opinion that cow protection is the concern of the GBC

and it is their responsibility to oversee cow programs in their zonal area.

They have appointed the Ministry to do that work for them but they have

given no funds to do it and in enough cases no cooperation. Its like

telling someone, I want you to do some errands for me but you do not provide

them with a car or there is no gas in the car you provide and no money to

buy the gas. And when they tell you they have no facility to do the errand

for you, you do nothing but expect them to do the errand. We have written up

a mission statement and goals but in reality without funding very little can

be done.

 

Some of the proposed plans of the Ministry are traveling to the different

centers to make personal connections with the cowherd and their individual

projects, having training seminars and meetings at our ISCOWP center,

producing literature on cow protection, providing economic incentives to

help set up devotees in agriculture, etc., etc. The possibilities are

endless as to what can be done but again with our economic resources they

are only dreams.

 

Technically the Ministry is the vehicle to the GBC but we are ignored by

enough GBC. So, Individuals besides us should approach the GBC on issues

they are concerned with. The more voices the better. It would be productive

to inform this Ministry of your concerns and what and who you have contacted

so that we can all be a unifying voice.

 

I believe I have covered all the questions but if there are some things

unclear, please ask again.

 

I am sorry that this may seem negative on this Radhastami day. I personally

will be praying to Srimate Radharani to have the intelligence to understand

what Lord Krsna wants us to do under the present circumstances. I will also

pray for the increased facility to do something wonderful for these most

vulnerable patient beings who are so dear to Lord Krsna's heart.

 

Your servant,

Chayadevi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday, August 19, 2001 6:39 PM

Re: Le Cow Quote Du Jour # 114 - re Juliette de Bairacli Levy

 

 

> The Cow Conference!

>

> Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada

>

> I have been fortunate enough to be inducted into the cow conference &

humbly

> request that I be educated on the following issues.

>

> 1) I do know that Balabhadra das is the Minister for Agriculture for

ISKCON.

> COW protection is a fundamental tenet for Krishna consciousness, What is

the

> charter & mission of the Ministry & where does the Cow conference fit into

> all this?

>

> 2) What is the mission of the COW conference?

>

> 3) Is the connection with the GBC through the ministry of Agriculture? Or

are

> any of the GBC members also members of the COW conference?

>

> 4) Are there any goals established for the Ministry?

>

> 5) Goals of the Cow conference?

>

> 6) Are there any agendas set up for discuission ? Is there a forum for a

> meeting?

>

> 7) How long have these entities been in existence. The Ministry & the

> Conference?

> What has been accomplished to date?

>

>

> Basically I am anxious to find out where we have been, what we have

> accomplished & what the goals are.

>

> Thank you very much for answering these questions

>

> Your most humble servant

>

>

> Aroon

>