TAWS/TAA/BVA workshop - April 15th 2004 (UK)

[Guest guest]

Such an important workshop for us -- we really should send at least

one person who could report back to the Ministry of Cow Protection and

Agriculture.

 

This will deal with topics which are very important to us, and we may

also be able to make a worthwhile contribution, just based on the

Minimum Cow Protection Standards. This also is an excellent opportunity

to make important contacts. As most of you realize, Paul Starkey is

probably the world's foremost authority on the topic of animal traction.

It's important that someone of his caliber has a major role in a

conference on the welfare of draft animals.

 

Syamasundara prabhu, is there anyone in the UK who can attend this

workshop next month?

 

ys

hkdd

 

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TAWS/TAA/BVA workshop - April 15th 2004 (UK)

Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:29:33 +0000

Paul Starkey <P.H.Starkey (AT) READING (DOT) AC.UK>

Animal Traction and Animal Power

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ANIMAL-TRACTION-L (AT) LISTSERV (DOT) DFN.DE

 

 

 

The following announcement may be of interest to

the members of this list who are based in UK.

Please feel free to pass it on to other colleagues

who may be interested.

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TAWS/TAA/BVA workshop - April 15th 2004

It is with great pleasure that we announce the next TAWS/TAA/BVA

workshop, which will be held on the 15th April 2004 at the Silsoe

Research Institute, Bedford.

 

The title of the workshop 'Common ground: moving forward with animals'

reflects the aim of identifying points of common interest among

organisations and individuals working in the fields of agriculture,

veterinary science, animal welfare, intermediate transport and socio-

economic development in order to move the agenda forward, with greater

collaboration and information sharing for the benefit of all the

relevant stakeholders, including the work animals themselves.

 

The workshop will bring together a wide range of people concerned with

working animals and their welfare, including agriculturalists,

research staff veterinarians, representatives of the major charities

and donor agencies, as well as interested supporters and students.

The workshop will provide a stimulating and conducive environment to

exchange ideas and information, and propose new initiatives and

actions in this important field. We expect that there will be two donkeys

and a horse available for the practical demonstrations of tillage

and transport equipment and harnessing.

There will be posters relating to rural transport, animal

welfare, and other topics. A range of publications and resource

materials will be on display.

 

This workshop builds upon the success of last year's acclaimed

workshop. Please go to the TAWS website (www.taws.org)

for more details about the workshop and the preliminary

programme (which will be updated). Topics to be covered include:

* Animal power for crop production: new tillage or no tillage?

* The safety and design of animal-drawn carts

* Collaboration in animal welfare: the way forward

* Harnesses for oxen and donkeys

Progress reports on:

* Welfare legislation and inspection database

* Students: potential to get involved in UK and overseas

* Ethno-veterinary welfare

 

We do hope that you will be able to attend. It would be helpful

if you could let us know if you can come. Please email Suzanne

(details below) if you can come, and/or if you have any

questions about the workshop.

Suzanne Rogers (nee Berry)

s.berry (AT) elsevier (DOT) com

14 Alexandra Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2PE.

Tel: 01932 820714

 

http://www.taws.org/

[Guest guest]

Syamasundara (das) (Bhaktivedanta Manor - UK) wrote:

 

>Dear HKDD

>

>I will try and attend the workshop. Thank you for informing us of it and

>encouraging our participation.

>

>On seperate topic about three books about animal powered systems. It seams

>the two books by GATE are still available and we are endeavouring to obtain

>them. The third book animal powered engines is out of print however I have

>located a copy in an antique book shop which should be arriving shortly

>

>ys syam

>

 

This is excellent news. Not only does this give us the chance to learn

more standards of animal welfare, and offer our own.

 

If it goes well, this could provide an important opportunity to

highlight ISKCON's involvement in animal welfare. Just as our

scientists gain credibility by publicizing their involvement in

professional scientific meetings, similarly our teamsters and cowherds

can gain wider respect by participating in professional activities like

this.

 

Naturally, you wouldn't be making a presentation this time, but if they

have a workshop in the fall or next spring, that might be a good

possibility.

 

I hope you can take a couple pictures and write a one or two paragraph

article to be posted on the various Vaisnava websites, as well as the

Manor news.

 

We'll all be quite interested to hear to hear about the procedings.

 

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I think that you will love the Animal Powered Engines book. At the end

is an annotated list of about 40 different projects that you can

actually visit, mostly in UK and Germany, with a few in Egypt, etc.

 

On the other hand, looking through all these books, I must say that the

Gita-nagari Ox Power book has by far the best technical drawings with

the most detail on how to actually assemble the machines. One thing

that interested me with many of the pictures is that the main gear drive

is actually located above the animals, so that they don't have to step

over the whirling shaft.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

 

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