Fw: Cow Protection and lawsuits

[Guest guest]

Dear Hare Krsna dasi,

 

I have just made you a member of the cow conference. I think the cow

conference would be the likely place for this.

 

Your servant,

Chayadevi

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"Noma Petroff" <npetroff (AT) loa (DOT) com>

"ISCOWP (Balabhadra Dasa & Chaya Dasi - USA)" <ISCOWP (AT) pamho (DOT) net>;

"Niscala Dasi" <niscala99 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>

Cc: "Noma Petroff" <npetroff (AT) loa (DOT) com>

Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:21 AM

Cow Protection and lawsuits

 

 

> I'm not sure that this is the right forum, but as I'm not currently on the

> cow conference, I just wondered if there has been much discussion on how

to

> protect cows, particularly at American and Canadian farms, if this lawsuit

> becomes a reality.

>

> We could ask Pitavas and Aradhya (Prabhupada Village) about what they did

> when the French government threatened to take Krsna's cows as payment for

> back taxes for New Mayapur.

>

> I was imagining how the situation might look from the perspective of the

> prosecuting lawyers:

>

> If the prosecution wins, ISKCON's land might be confiscated -- but as Jaya

> Lalita pointed out, land with layers of mortgages on it may not look so

> attractive.

>

> Then again, there are the buildings. But again, many of those buildings

> might be a little problematic due to the fact they are decorated like

> temples. Big renovations charges might be needed to make them usable for

> non-devotee purposes.

>

> Then again, there are the cows. From the point of view of the

prosecution,

> these might appear to be the most liquid and most easily converted to cash

> of the devotee assets.

>

> So, from the point of view of cow protection, what do we do? What do our

> lawyers have to say about the legality of selling cows, which have already

> been "adopted" by other parties throught various Adopt-a-Cow and

> Save-the-Cow programs?

>

> ********************

>

> Anyway, just wondered if the ramifications of this case with regard to cow

> protection have begun to be discussed at this point?

>

> your servant,

>

> Hare Krsna dasi

>

>