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[Guest guest]

Hare Krsna cowprotectors

Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

As the situation is today, with competing economics, cow-protection and

self-sufficiency with an economic basis is not possible.

I have read several ideas of economic cow protection. The last one is the

project in Alachua.

How can I make the cow and bull pay for their expenses, and if possible a

little extra. This is not protection but exploitation.

 

So I should be settled somewhere with my economic problems taken care of,

then I can start taking care of a cow like a pet, Krsna's favorite animal.

The goal is to protect the cow to please Krsna. And if I am rewarded with

some milk, dung for the garden and muscles to pull something, that is very

nice. Every body does it small scale, each family just a few cows.

 

A problem is that most "farm" communities (ISKCON centers in the

countryside) are managed like a city preaching center. They just happen to

be in the country. I think the way to develop varnasrama is to give away

"temple land" for life to the devotees who want to develop selfsufficiency

and cowprotection.

 

The support of all "leaders" is very important. They have to set the

example, but they even never talk about. It should be brought up every

class, just as important as sankirtan and pujari.

 

We could start a trust with money making trustees in the city. Some families

on a piece of land to run a dairyfarm. The families are dependent for their

livelyhood on the donations. The cows have to produce to keep the donors

happy. The donors depent on the economic situation. etc. With all this

interdepence it becomes less stable. If a families can make more money else

where they can easely go.

We are dependent on the cows, but they should be dependent on us, that is

protection. Keep it small, lets go for quality not quantity.

 

Haribolo, your servant, Hari kirtan dasa

[Guest guest]

>I also think the pumping water and no

> electric limits your possibilities. A young mother might like a

refrigerator?

> What your talking about would be akin to a 24 hour "colonial willimsburg"

> setting...which could be a good tourist draw? But otherwise would be hard

to

> "compete" (as someone said) with the modern market. obeisancess eka b

>

 

Even the Amish aren't that severe, they do use stationery fossil fuel

plants for certain things. There is a whole line of propane refrigerateurs

tho, and root cellars should be a part of any sustainable planning.

Regardless, emphasis on simple living. Another way to say it is no net

useage from the grid, that allows for electrical useage but tneds to be

more self limiting if you need to be creating some juice yourself.