Kunstler: The Long Emergency - the crash after Peak Oil Production

[Guest guest]

One thing to keep in mind is that oil or no oil, people will first need to

become Krishna conscious before cow protection will ever take root.

 

They won't take to "cow protection" simply because they are using animals.

It's a fact that before automobiles and trains, the West used only animal power

 

(what else was there?). However, there were no vegetarians (expect perhaps

among the intellectuals) - the people in general used oxen and horses for power

 

and when they were too old to work they killed them and used their bodies in

other ways. They used horses for glue (still do) and killed cows whenever they

needed meat (a daily fare). That is one of the reasons that oxen were do

popular during the drive out west (USA). If an ox fell ill or if there was an

emergency, they could use the animals for meat.

 

Even today in the U.S. most of the Amish use exclusively animal power; but

there are no Amish vegetarians nor Amish bhaktas.

 

Preaching still must go one. No one will become Krishna conscious simply due

to fear of a Y2K like oil shortage or simply by using animals in place of cars

and trucks - cow protection is an act of devotion to Krishna and the shastra.

Even if there is an oil shortage, the people of the world will do that they

have always done - stand up, dust themselves off, and continue on in their

illusory life, compelled by the modes of material nature. At the end of the

day,

they will sit down with meat on their plates.

 

just some thoughts.

 

Gopal Das