To Syam from Mark at VEDA

[Guest guest]

Hello Syam, You're back I see.

 

How's things in the UK. I will be there in July,

though I don't know how long for.

 

You always said you were interested in your local

business, but a global vision was beyond your reach,

more what I am after.

 

Well, the UK Veg Soc have rejected my proposal, saying

I should form VEDA - as it is a niche market, both as

a business and a charity. I will have another article

later this year, but for now there is little movement

on this front.

 

Fortunately, my pestering the devotee community got me

on this conference. Now you have a good idea of what I

am proposing, and as I understand it you seemed to be

very favourably inclined to my ideas.

Since I have been on the conference I have mostly been

attacked for proposing a secular and profit-orientated

version of cow protection - Protection Farms, for the

profitable lifetime protection of farm animals.

 

I am asking, to whom are the most knowledgable people,

for a fully costed business plan to be worked out. To

know the inputs, processes and outputs and to place

monetary values on them so to be able to have a

financial audit of the farming system. This should

then lead to a real market price.

 

Then if I take the business plan to any multitude of

interested places I can show the costs and benefits of

such a system.

 

For example, farmers in the UK are after something

different now, what after BSE, F&M, Vegies, animal

rights, intensification, amalgamation, etc.

What if we could present, along with a public-given

package for organics conversion, a full conversion

package - to Protection Farms status.

Here farmers, who have land or who rent land, could

see the differences in the system, the costs and

benefits, and then face a real-life choice to be

certified in the Protection Farms system and be

commercial providers.

 

Otherwise, and more probable, such figures and systems

analysis could be presented to temples and devotees

who hold middle-class jobs and can therefore pay above

the odds for a niche product. Here some fixed and

binding arrangements can be made with costs being met

by charity, private and public means, all based on

real figures and real processes.

 

 

You know I have been studying this in detail for

years. If the veg and animal rights societies are not

yet interested in taking on this issue, this leaves

only ISKCON, as most other Hindu groups have a token

interest in this. If ISKCON can not find the

philosophical and organisational muscel to push this

forward - then who will?

 

I need people to work with me on this, yes to find

holes in my arguments, but only with the ultimate goal

of presenting a system that will work. It is not the

same as Prabhupada's TOP version - his was for

devotees to live totally simply, yet he always showed

the diferences between the transcendentalist and those

in the modes of nature - both leading to progression.

Mine is of the latter, more of a middle-class version,

whereby the animals protection is assured (within

acceptable risks) and goods and services are procured.

 

Please Syam, if you have any respect for and interest

in the work we did together, please help me to get

respect for this proposal here on the conference, and

to get the numbers and systems processes so that a

business plan can be formulated.

 

Yours, still in Argentina, Mark.

 

 

 

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