Mayapur goshalla

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Dear Pamcaratna Prabhu,

 

PAMHO AGTSP

 

Sorry but in my mind the figures are still not clear. If one is breeding 67

cows per year to get 50 cows milking then the herd total over 18 years will

be 1206 animals in total. If we accept a 5% mortality rate before old age

then the herd Total will be 1146. Whether they are cows or bulls doesn't

matter because the number of animals that must be maintained is still the

same i.e. 1146.

 

On a related point why should RadhaMadhava not have a large herd of cows?

When the Mayapur city will exude so much opulence why should that opulence

not include a large protected herd. 1200 animals is not that large a herd

when you consider that Mayapur city will have 10,000 residents.

 

Whilst I can appreciate the need to build a cow protection system within the

local cow herders, that should be side by side with the mayapur herd. As we

all know the milk yield even from 50 cows will not be enough to supply all

the city requirements.

 

I would therefore see a parallel approach in that there is a significant

sized goshalla arrangement belonging to RadhaMadhava, and at the same time

there is some economic arrangement with the surrounding cow herders that

supports their Cow Protection.

 

In the mean time why does Mayapur not establish systems to give work to

their oxen rather than have a management system that sends them away. If

Mayapur is only for the Indian people then perhaps seeing oxen working and

cows protected will not be that interesting because every one is supposed to

be seeing that all the time. If however Mayapur is the world headquarters

and its visitors are internationals then Mayapur had better start taking

their OX work and Cow Protection seriously.

 

When Srila Prabhupada warns us that if we do not work the oxen we will think

about killing them, then we can only think of Mayapur and see the result of

not working their oxen and establishing a management system that arranges

for somebody else to do the killing. If the locals are not farming and

transporting with oxen then they are killing them. From that view point

alone it should be very clear to any vistor to the Mayapur area that it is

very unlikely that they are not killing or arranging to kill their oxen.

 

The Maypur city management have some way to go to reasure the ISKCON Cow

protectors that they are seriously concerned with Cow Protection.

 

ys syam

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Dear Shyamasundar

 

It is nice to have lots of milk, but first there must be sufficient land to

support the offspring, and a sound economic plan to engage all the

offspring. Until that manifests, breeding should be zero.

 

>>>In the mean time why does Mayapur not establish systems to give work to

>their oxen rather than have a management system that sends them away. If

>Mayapur is only for the Indian people then perhaps seeing oxen working and

>cows protected will not be that interesting because every one is supposed

>to

>be seeing that all the time. If however Mayapur is the world headquarters

>and its visitors are internationals then Mayapur had better start taking

>their OX work and Cow Protection seriously.

 

No if anything it is more important ther than here, Indians are aping the

west. We should have massive propaganda there that us westerners see a whole

lot of value in the original Indian farming system, in terms of

sustainability, and long term value. We should have on display, stuff about

our farms around the world- showing plowing with oxen (though we don't do

it- aynway, we should weigh up the virtues and vice of that one)

 

I wonder though if Mayapur can compete with buffalo- they seem better suited

to a wet climate. Anyway, I think it is absolutely essential to take

advantage of urione-based medicines, and the different ways that dung can be

maximized in its use, as described in Dung is GolD mINE. If good profit is

being made by these other things, then that may make it as profitable as

tractor farming. Then one just has to make the ethical and ecological

choice- and it is clear that protecting cows is in favour of that.

 

ys, Niscala

 

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