Guest guest Posted March 10, 2001 Report Share Posted March 10, 2001 Dear Bh. Neeta Madari. PAMHO. AGTSP. We greatly appreciate your enthusiasm to stop the slaughter of many many cows due to the hoof and mouth disease that has spread in the European sector. You have asked for this Ministry's support in getting other ISKCON temples, especially in Europe, to participate in campaigning against this wholesale slaughter. You may be aware that this Ministry has established as ISKCON Law 507, The Minimum Cow Protection Standards, passed as law in 1999. Part of this law is that each ISKCON farm file quarterly reports every year. There is not one European farm that has filed 4 reports in 1 year. Bhaktivedanta Manor has filed 2 reports last year, which is the best reporting in the European sector, but still inefficient for this Ministry to know the full status of the farm. You have asked this Ministry to encourage a campaign against this slaughter and we are reporting to you that we can not be sure that even our own ISKCON Farms are following the MINIMUM Cow Protection Standards. Therefore we feel ISKCON is not in a position to draw public attention to ISKCON Farms by staging a campaign against the non devotee slaughter of cows. In too many cases there has been gross neglect, even slaughter of ISKCON cows. In our humble opinion we need to clean up our own "backyard" before waging a campaign against the non-devotees. Example is better than precept. Irregardless of the fact that this Ministry can not verify the status of the European farms due to their lack of reporting required by ISKCON Law , we feel it unwise to take any risk in drawing attention to the cows there under ISKCON protection. If anyone can clarify what protection measures if any are being taken for ISKCON cows. Here is an inquiry from a concerned devotee on the cow conference that we feel needs to be taken seriously. <To protect our family of cows within ISKCON at least, do you have any measures in place? We prey that your cows are protected from this deadly virus. Please let us know of any measures taken so that we may learn and be prepared as the agricultural dept in NZ is pretty ruthless if an outbreak came our way. Your servant, Ananta Krsna Dasi> Most importantly, our energies should be placed in researching and understanding what are the risks to ISKCON cows and then secondly putting protection measures in place. Next, to have all ISKCON farms current on their reporting so ISKCON can act as a knowledgeable unified force. A cow report form is available upon request to the above address. We would like very much to hear your response as well as the response from the authorities in charge of European farms. Your servants, Balabhadra das & Chayadevi ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture ISKCON Ministry for - "Gauranga Premananda (das) BCS (TP Amsterdam - NL)" <Gauranga.Premananda.BCS (AT) pamho (DOT) net> "ISCOWP (Balabhadra Dasa & Chaya Dasi - USA)" <ISCOWP (AT) pamho (DOT) net> Friday, March 09, 2001 4:25 AM cow > Hare Krishna Ballabhadra prabhu, > > Please accept my obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > In the west cows are contaminated with BSE and the pigs and sheep are also > ill. > Bhakti Purusottama swami has given us his mercy to demonstrate and give > pressconferences here in Holland. > But my wish is that in all countries allover the world demonstrations will > be held > by ISKCON together with other cow-loving organisations. This is the right > time for international > efforts to protect the cows.The people are afraid to consume meat and we > must open their eyes to the fullest. > Bhakti Purusottama swami advised me to turn to you for asking the other > Iskcon temples, > especially those in the european countries, to participate. > > Bhakta Michel is contacting other cow-loving organisations and other > devotees are helpfull too. > > We also want to promote vegetarism but of course our first goal is to stop > the slaughtering. > In Bhagavad-Gita is stated that we should protect the cows. > We shouldn't close our eyes and allow this to happen. > As minister, i think you can surely help Krishna's cows. > > Haribol prabhuji, > your eternal servant, > > > Bh. Neeta Madari. > > > > Reply > > Email: neeta_madari (AT) hotmail (DOT) com > tel. 070 - 3360884 > 06 - 24648831 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 10, 2001 Report Share Posted March 10, 2001 It is sad that we cannot campaign against the slaughter of cows in Europe, but I think the Ministry's reponse is the most sensible: When it comes to cow protection, we must clean up our own back yard before we start making a big agitation with the press. People who have power are expert in dealing with the press, and if they decided to publicize the situation of the cows on our various farms, especially in Vrndavana, India -- the results could be very damaging to ISKCON, indeed. The whole effort could backfire on us. Again, this points to the importance of having GBC who are committed to following ISKCON law 507 and thus providing appropriate managerial oversight for our farms -- so that when issues like this come up, we can afford to speak out in public without the risk of appearing hypocritical and ludicrous. And again I wonder, why do we allow people to occupy the position of GBC who staunchly resist following ISKCON law? your servant, Hare Krsna dasi "ISCOWP (Balabhadra Dasa & Chaya Dasi - USA)" wrote: > Dear Bh. Neeta Madari. > > PAMHO. AGTSP. > > We greatly appreciate your enthusiasm to stop the slaughter of many many > cows due to the hoof and mouth disease that has spread in the European > sector. You have asked for this Ministry's support in getting other ISKCON > temples, especially in Europe, to participate in campaigning against this > wholesale slaughter. > > You may be aware that this Ministry has established as ISKCON Law 507, The > Minimum Cow Protection Standards, passed as law in 1999. Part of this law is > that each ISKCON farm file quarterly reports every year. There is not one > European farm that has filed 4 reports in 1 year. Bhaktivedanta Manor has > filed 2 reports last year, which is the best reporting in the European > sector, but still inefficient for this Ministry to know the full status of > the farm. You have asked this Ministry to encourage a campaign against this > slaughter and we are reporting to you that we can not be sure that even our > own ISKCON Farms are following the MINIMUM Cow Protection Standards. > > Therefore we feel ISKCON is not in a position to draw public attention to > ISKCON Farms by staging a campaign against the non devotee slaughter of > cows. In too many cases there has been gross neglect, even slaughter of > ISKCON cows. In our humble opinion we need to clean up our own "backyard" > before waging a campaign against the non-devotees. Example is better than > precept. > > Irregardless of the fact that this Ministry can not verify the status of the > European farms due to their lack of reporting required by ISKCON Law , we > feel it unwise to take any risk in drawing attention to the cows there under > ISKCON protection. If anyone can clarify what protection measures if any > are being taken for ISKCON cows. Here is an inquiry from a concerned > devotee on the cow conference that we feel needs to be taken seriously. > > <To protect our family of cows within ISKCON at least, do you have any > measures in place? We prey that your cows are protected from this deadly > virus. Please let us know of any measures taken so that we may learn and be > prepared as the agricultural dept in NZ is pretty ruthless if an outbreak > came our way. > Your servant, > Ananta Krsna Dasi> > > Most importantly, our energies should be placed in researching and > understanding what are the risks to ISKCON cows and then secondly putting > protection measures in place. Next, to have all ISKCON farms current on > their reporting so ISKCON can act as a knowledgeable unified force. A cow > report form is available upon request to the above address. > > We would like very much to hear your response as well as the response from > the authorities in charge of European farms. > > Your servants, > Balabhadra das & Chayadevi > ISKCON Ministry for Cow Protection and Agriculture > ISKCON Ministry for > > - > "Gauranga Premananda (das) BCS (TP Amsterdam - NL)" > <Gauranga.Premananda.BCS (AT) pamho (DOT) net> > "ISCOWP (Balabhadra Dasa & Chaya Dasi - USA)" <ISCOWP (AT) pamho (DOT) net> > Friday, March 09, 2001 4:25 AM > cow > > > Hare Krishna Ballabhadra prabhu, > > > > Please accept my obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. > > > > In the west cows are contaminated with BSE and the pigs and sheep are also > > ill. > > Bhakti Purusottama swami has given us his mercy to demonstrate and give > > pressconferences here in Holland. > > But my wish is that in all countries allover the world demonstrations will > > be held > > by ISKCON together with other cow-loving organisations. This is the right > > time for international > > efforts to protect the cows.The people are afraid to consume meat and we > > must open their eyes to the fullest. > > Bhakti Purusottama swami advised me to turn to you for asking the other > > Iskcon temples, > > especially those in the european countries, to participate. > > > > Bhakta Michel is contacting other cow-loving organisations and other > > devotees are helpfull too. > > > > We also want to promote vegetarism but of course our first goal is to stop > > the slaughtering. > > In Bhagavad-Gita is stated that we should protect the cows. > > We shouldn't close our eyes and allow this to happen. > > As minister, i think you can surely help Krishna's cows. > > > > Haribol prabhuji, > > your eternal servant, > > > > > > Bh. Neeta Madari. > > > > > > > > Reply > > > > Email: neeta_madari (AT) hotmail (DOT) com > > tel. 070 - 3360884 > > 06 - 24648831 -- Noma Petroff Academic Department Coordinator BOWDOIN COLLEGE Department of Theater & Dance 9100 College Station Brunswick ME 04011-8491 Phone: (207) 725-3663 FAX: (207) 725-3372 e-mail: npetroff (AT) bowdoin (DOT) edu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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