Vyapaka dasa interviews Kurma Rupa dasa - April 23, 2004 During a visit to Vrindavan dhama, Hare Krsna Rural Life (www.hkrl.com) had the good fortune to be able to sit down and interview Kurma Rupa Prabhu (KRP) about his efforts in starting and maintaining the program Care For Cows in Vrindavan. He provided valuable insight into the spiritual perspective of protecting the cows and we were impressed by his selfless

Number of people worldwide who will die of starvation this year: 60 million. Number of people who could be adequately fed with the grain saved if Americans reduced their intake of meat by 10 perc.: 60 million. Human beings in America: 243 million. Number of people who could be fed with grain and soybeans now eaten by U.S. livestock: 1.3 billion. How frequently.

By Kurma Rupa dasa : - Wisdom from the cow shed They say it was the coldest winter in thirty years... no sunshine for three weeks. Finally one afternoon the sun broke through the haze and lit a small oval area in the barnyard. My mother Nagnagiti waddled over and plopped herself down to deliver me. As the labor pains ensued, she stretched all four legs and began

by Kurma Rupa dasa : - Cows Influence us to be Good Bhagavad-gita explains that material nature is composed of three modes ― goodness, passion and ignorance ― and that when the living entities, who are spiritual, come in contact with nature they become conditioned by these modes. Of these three, the mode of goodness (sattva guna) is superlative as it

By Kathy Freston : - A while back, I began considering my diet as a way to practice my spiritual beliefs, and as I weighed what would be right for me, I came up against so much inner turmoil. As a southern gal, I grew up going to church and enjoying various get-togethers with other parishioners over BBQ dinners and Sunday brunches of eggs with grits

In the fall of 2001 the Padayatra came to Vrindavan to conduct the Vraja Mandala Parikrama and during their stay we often visited their camp to admire the bulls. The most impressive of the lot was Krsna, the black and regal Kankraj veteran who had circumambulated India twice during his ten years on the road. His massive horns were almost perfectly symmetrical

Soaring oil prices and government incentives are fueling increased interest in renewable energy sources such as cow manure. And what better place to do manure research than in the Texas Panhandle, which holds the aromatic distinction of being the country's biggest producer of cow pies in a state that leads the country in cattle production

About a third of an ounce of botulism toxin poured by bioterrorists into a milk truck en route from a dairy farm to a processing plant could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic losses, according to a scientific analysis that was published yesterday despite efforts by federal officials to keep the details secret.

The I-5 freeway that runs between Los Angeles and San Francisco is a long, straight stretch of road. The landscape is bordered to the west by barren mountains whose brown, deceptively smooth folds, like loose skin, belie a rugged terrain. For almost half the length of this 500-odd mile road, as far as the eye can see to the east, are constant green splashes of farming

The goal of the "Got Milk?" campaign may be to sell more milk, but the main beneficiaries of this advertising effort could well be the bones and health of current and future adults. As we learn more about the benefits of calcium and the particular importance to a healthy skeleton of calcium during childhood and adolescence, nutrition experts are becoming increasingly

9/30/2003 -- A non-human, cellular molecule is absorbed into human tissues as a result of eating red meat and milk products, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, published online the week of September 29, 2003 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bhishma said: No sacrifice can be performed without the aid of curds and ghee (clarified butter). The very character of sacrifice which sacrifices have, depends upon ghee. Hence ghee (or, the cow from which it is produced) is regarded as the very root of sacrifice Cows have been said to be the limbs of sacrifice. They represent sacrifice itself

A farmer's wife who was swept away by floods in New Zealand yesterday had her life saved by a cow. Kim Riley praised the animal - known only as Number 569 - and described it as "an ugly old tart". The area around Mrs Riley's farm at Woodville, near Palmerston North, has been lashed by severe storms that have claimed two lives, washed away wooden houses and forced the evacuation of hundreds of North Island homes.

HE ACTUAL PHILOSOPHICAL REASON FOR COW PROTECTION IS VERY SIMPLE: First of all, all living entities should be protected from slaughter and other violence at the hands of humans. Not only cows, but animals have SOULS the same as we do. All are children of God, all are dear to Him.

One thing will never change: Carbonaro must always be on the right. Five years from now, ten years, even twenty, if all goes well, Carbonaro will still be on the right and Primavera on the left, the two of them yoked together, pulling a spindly plough across the loamy fields in the hills outside Cienfuegos. Oxen are like that: absolutely rigid in their habits, intractable once they have learned their ways. Even when a working pair is out of harness and is being led to water or to a fresh spot to graze, the two animals must be aligned just as they are accustomed or they will bolt, or at the very least dig in and refuse to go any farther until order is restored, each ox in its place. Carbonaro and Primavera were not always a pair. Twenty years ago Primavera was matched up and trained with an ox named Cimarr

While NASA engineers have grown fish tissue in lab dishes, no one has seriously proposed a way to grow meat on commercial levels. But a new study conducted by University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny and his colleagues describe two possible ways to do it

Nearly 250,000 people signed a petition calling for abolition in Catalonia, of which Barcelona is the capital. The regional government must now approve the ban, the first of its kind in Spain, for it to become law Supporters of the sport, regarded by many as a national pastime, have threatened to take to the streets in protest

Of the 93 dairy cattle, 55 were bull calves that would have been slaughtered at a young age. The other 38 were females and investigators have found that in November 2004 one animal was a downer cow that tested negative for the disease. Nine additional animals from this group have been found and quarantined. They will be euthanized and tested for

Veterinary officials said Thursday that preliminary tests had been positive for the brain-wasting mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The United States, Canada's largest export market, announced last week that it would begin to accept imports of young, live cattle thought to be at low risk for the disease starting on March 7. American officials said Thursday that there were no plans to change that, despite the preliminary positive test. The animal did not enter the human food or animal feed supply, and there was no risk to the public.

The officials released few details, saying it would be four to seven days before the possible case could be confirmed. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, attacks an animal's nervous system. People who eat food contaminated with BSE can contract a rare disease that is nearly always fatal, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The possible case comes 11 months after the United States had its first case of mad cow disease. Japan and other countries are still maintaining bans against U.S. beef as the result of the earlier case. Suspicions about another case of the disease came because of an inconclusive test result, officials said. ``The inconclusive result does not mean we have found another case of BSE in this country,'' said Andrea Morgan, associate deputy administrator of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. She said the inconclusive results ``are a normal component of screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will detect any sample that could possibly be positive.''

Ms. Kubersky and her sister, Sarah, have parlayed their distaste for meat and, for that matter, all goods derived from animals, into a vigorous business selling vegan products - that is, imitation leather shoes, bags and motorcycle jackets - at MooShoes, their boutique in Lower Manhattan. MooShoes, where the best sellers include pointy-toed microfiber