By Dusyanta dasa
February 12, 1976, Mayapur
Morning Walk
“Machine means unemployment for many. Tractor, they’re using, they’re unemployment for bulls and ploughmen and then they, bulls have to be killed. This is going on. Unemployment, then kill them.”
One of the main problems with today’s modernity is the usage of machinery. And why so many Bulls are slaughtered is because there is no work for them to do. If we can understand the nature of today’s farming activities it is apparent that we all follow and support an industrialized farming model. This means we support the use of tractors, the diesel they need to be powered, and we support the use of pharmaceutical artificial fertilizers to grow all the food. Once we have become fully integrated into this agricultural model and system it means as Srila Prabhupada is so eloquently pointing out, …” Bulls have to be killed.”
As we stand back and make the neutral observation on how modern man is farming our planet it means we are all supporting the killing of Bulls. They are unemployed, so kill them. Not many people understand and have experience of farm animals working alongside farm workers, community members and so forth, to farm.
The whole idea behind cow protection is to fully engage both the Cows and the Bulls in an endeavor to integrate our agricultural activities so we don’t have to kill or slaughter the Cows and the Bulls. The idea is that we live by developing a symbiotic relationship with Cows and Bulls so we can develop an agricultural model that obviates the need for tractors, for artificial fertilizers, for chemicals and for unemployment. One of the prime by-products of protecting Bulls and Cows is the production of manures which when handled through an anaerobic process, produces the best fertilizer on the planet and is totally ecologically friendly and totally organic.
The harmful methane gases that are produced by Cows and Bulls are harnessed in the anaerobic process to capture the methane gas for energy to cook, heat water and lighting if need be. Whilst the other positive by-product of this anaerobic process is to produce Ammonium Bi-carbonates in the wet slurry like residues. This is possibly the best fertilizer on the planet for plants. So, we slowly get a wholesome picture of the reasons why Cow Protection is authentically recommended in the Bhagavad-gita As It Is. 18.44.
By marrying up this model of Cow Protection with the right type of Community the whole economic answer is solved so that industrialization in agriculture can be by-passed and given up. The protected Bulls have full time employment. The Cows are protected and produce the wonder food, Milk. Cow Protected and hand produced Milk. And the community work alongside the Bulls and Cows to produce all the food for the Community and whole herd of Cows and Bulls.
Otherwise what are we contributing to if we don’t protect Cows and Bulls. If food production is important to us, we must consider the way the food is produced as it is an integrated component of society and community. We can make the choice between using tractors to produce our food and thereby risk the unemployment of Bulls and Oxen or we can make the choice of Cow Protection so we have at our disposal the alternative to the tractor for drought and torque work, the Oxen. By engaging holistically with cow protection, we solve all the questions of economy. But by choosing Tractor power we still support the whole industrialized food production agricultural model.
And yet by choosing tractor power we put into motion a whole capitalistic economic model that is exploitative, abusive to our planet and implicates us all into a chemical and diesel fueled agricultural model to produce food for a planet of humans. The Agricultural model is existing to feed the world. To produce the grains that we all subsist on. Its not like a back garden or even a horticultural plot, its Agriculture, a step up, and it needs a power source to make the model work so that we can feed the planet. And this is exactly where the Oxen fit in to the model or else don’t we risk unemployment for the Bulls and therefore killing them?
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