Guest guest Posted August 16, 2001 Report Share Posted August 16, 2001 Dear conference, I received this from Aroon of which I find needs to be shared. It is in the active, pasionate, fresh youth and new members that this issue will be pushed forward. I still find much of what HKDD says to be totally stulifying and incorrect. I would love to debate this out with her as I think she is wrong and her views are stopping cow protection from working. As the last cow quote of Prabhupada said: Therefore it is recommended, krsi-goraksya-vanijyam. and if there is excess, they can trade. The point is that there will be excess and therefore there will be trade and there will be commerce. A commercial viewpoint, a business is essential - it is just in the fine points of its workings that we must endeavour to the highest morallity. --- Chalissa1 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote: > Dear Mark: > Haribol > > My humble obeisances to Srila Prabhupada > > My humble apologies for the delayed response I have > been out of town for over > a week & just got back. I am overwhelmed with the > concept of Veda. I need to > digest it fully. The one thing that I feel is the > litmus test it that it be > financially viable, self- sustaining. > > The Iskcon farms are a precurser for what we need to > do worldwide with > financial viability. > > There is a function in Chicago at the Manav Seva > Mandir, where 3000 devotees > are expected to congregate. I am hoping to get a > table & have with me Dr. > Gross referenced in the article & marshall the > Indian community to seriously > think about what they abet even to the extent of > offering prasad which I feel > is tainted with cruelty. > > I need to study very carefully the VEDA principles > outlined & perhaps may > come back to you with some questions. > > At this point I would like very strongly to write to > each of the GBC members > to stop the use of " factory farmed milk" in the > offerings to the deities > worldwide. Would you know where I can get all their > names, Emails & addresses. > > Your humble servant > > Aroon > __________ Get your free @.co.uk address at http://mail..co.uk or your free @.ie address at http://mail..ie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 17, 2001 Report Share Posted August 17, 2001 Jay Aroon, In reply to your question: > At this point I would like very strongly to write to > each of the GBC members > to stop the use of " factory farmed milk" in the > offerings to the deities > worldwide. Would you know where I can get all their > names, Emails & addresses The answer is no, I do not have the available details. I have included this letter on the cow conference. I believe this to be good as I think it would be nice to get yourself onto this conference. Here, the ins and outs of cow protection are debated in scrutiating detail. I am somewhat of an antagonist on this conferece as my perspective is that cow protection needs to be seperated from peroquial religions, like what ISKCON could be called (depending on whose mentality), and that it should be economically viable, productive and profit giving. This is controversial as ISCKON, supposedly a society of conscious people, is in many respects a sectarian religion, not an all-ebracing (secular) social movement: and without abandoning its varied form of religion it holds on to its sacred cow of sacred cows and does not share it to the rest of the world. The ISCKON elites give lip-say to cow protection but do little to support it in comparison to the importance it has. But the main failing grace, as I see it, is in the lack of embracing the fact that wide-scale cow protection would have $million and $billion assets and turnover. Solely as a subsistence farming system this would be difficult to set up, just to afford the assets, and maintain, as excess would come naturally, which would lead to trade. By not embracing business, the need for production and profit, many on this conference are, in my view, consigning cow protection to the waiting list of good-ideas-waiting-to-happen. If you agree with my position or not, please join us on this conference and elswhere to allow the right conditions to bring cow protection to the waiting world. Yours, Mark Chatburn. --- Chalissa1 (AT) aol (DOT) com wrote: > Dear Mark: > Haribol > > My humble obeisances to Srila Prabhupada > > My humble apologies for the delayed response I have > been out of town for over > a week & just got back. I am overwhelmed with the > concept of Veda. I need to > digest it fully. The one thing that I feel is the > litmus test it that it be > financially viable, self- sustaining. > > The Iskcon farms are a precurser for what we need to > do worldwide with > financial viability. > > There is a function in Chicago at the Manav Seva > Mandir, where 3000 devotees > are expected to congregate. I am hoping to get a > table & have with me Dr. > Gross referenced in the article & marshall the > Indian community to seriously > think about what they abet even to the extent of > offering prasad which I feel > is tainted with cruelty. > > I need to study very carefully the VEDA principles > outlined & perhaps may > come back to you with some questions. > > At this point I would like very strongly to write to > each of the GBC members > to stop the use of " factory farmed milk" in the > offerings to the deities > worldwide. Would you know where I can get all their > names, Emails & addresses. > > Your humble servant > > Aroon > __________ Get your free @.co.uk address at http://mail..co.uk or your free @.ie address at http://mail..ie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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