Protection Farms -- when out of business?

[Guest guest]

To HKDD, thank you very much for responding to my

points.

The questions I wrote below refered to the eventuality

that the business goes bust and the charity takes over

the care of the animals.

My point here is to define the absolute minimum care

afforded by the charity once the business has gone due

to its failure to meet the risks allowed to the

business. What would be the absolute minimum?

Your points are very valid in the working system, but

what if the business fails. If each cow has an assured

1 hectare (depending on land quality) then it will do

its own rotational grazing (see Argentina). The

animals will have their names, but if they are now

from a failed farm there will be little expenses to

count them every day and give them the human touch

(again what pre-paid arrangements need to be made).

It would be better for arrangements to be made for

their absorption in a succeeding farm, with land

bought and their care outsourced to the new farm.

 

When talking about risk, one must remember when we

have children we do not have the funds set up for the

rest of the child's life, for housing, education,

clothes, food. No, we make them through their life.

So, if we are to say the minimum standards to produce

cows is to have their lifetime welfare pre-assured by

a trust fund, it is shooting ourselves in the foot, as

it is a challenge just too far to meet - unrealistic.

Then it will not be done. Risk is a factor in life,

and as I wrote before we risk 100% for all farm

animals by doing nothing and allowing the perpetuation

of the present system.

 

Other than that I am very happy we are communicating.

 

 

The trust would

> > > > keep this fund in an endowment to guarantee

> the

> > > protection of the cows by

> > > > hiring cow herds in the future if the business

> > > fails.

> >

> > Right, to ensure their lifetime protection it

> would

> > probably be better for land to be assured, as

> their

> > ultimate home if all else fails. Here in

> Argentina,

> > all animals are lte loose on enormous tracts of

> land -

> > grass-fed beef. Therefore, the basic minimum care

> is

> > for land to satisfy their feeding needs summer and

> > winter. Beyond that what is the basic minimum? A

> visit

> > once a month?

>

> Lord Krsna, the foremost among all cowherds,

> demonstrated by His

> personal activities at least three principles which

> should be followed

> for cow protection if possible:

>

> 1. Rotational grazing. Krsna and His cowherd

> boyfriends would move the

> cows to fresh grazing grounds each day. The

> practical application of

> this method in modern times is rotational grazing.

> As a scholar of

> environmental protection, I'm sure that you can

> appreciate how

> rotational grazing protects Mother Earth from soil

> erosion, etc.

>

> 2. Giving each cow or bull a name. Krsna would

> call each animal by

> it's name and the animals would respond by lowing

> affectionately. The

> practical application of this principle in modern

> times is that the name

> establishes a personal relationship with the cow or

> bull -- thus

> reducing its chance of being slaughtered. Oddly

> enough, there is at

> least one large project in ISKCON where many bull

> calves go unnamed.

>

> 3. Counting the cows daily. When Krsna brought the

> cows back to the

> village for the night, He would count the cows using

> a string of

> jewels. The practical application of this principle

> in modern times is

> that under any effective cow protection program, the

> cows and bulls must

> be counted at least once a day -- just as Krsna did.

> Otherwise, a cow

> might wander off and get caught in some dangerous

> place -- or cows that

> are down because they are ill will not be detected

> by the cowherd. And,

> worst of all, if it is known that the cowherds are

> not vigilant about

> counting the cows, it becomes an invitation for

> cattle rustlers to come

> and steal the animals and kill them.

>

> All these principles exemplified by Lord Krsna are

> addressed by various

> rules in ISKCON's Minimum Cow Protection Standards.

>

> your servant,

>

> Hare Krsna dasi

>

 

 

 

 

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