Save the Cows

Looks like an unbelievable amount of wonderful juicy succulent MEAT going to waste to me. And a good amount of leather being wasted too. Very unfortunate.

An excellent example of how religion perverts the mind.

Thanks for posting.
 
Looked...um...Indian, the site did. This confuses me too if its just a vegan site. "The very name of Krishna’s holy land of Braj (pasture) and His spiritual abode Goloka (cow-world) reveal His intimate connection with cows."

Nothing negative against Indians what-so-ever.

And, of course, Yvsa, I wasn't speaking of ndn's. LOL.
 
Well, why not save the cows? Sounds like nothing but good comes from it.

In MN our tax money goes to saving wolves, and we don't get much milk out of 'em.
 
I'm not Hindu, and I don't know anything about the Swami that founded this sect, but I respect their right to believe what they wish. Most religions are just different paths leading to the same place (my humble opinion only).

I'd miss my burgers though.

Steve
 
My parents visited the Temple a few months ago. They said it has maybe 5 or ten years before it is in serious disrepair. That whole community underwent major problems when the swami that helped found it went to jail. The Swami had broke the community off from ISKON and was kind of going his own way in not a good way.

The devotees were left to pick up the peices, I think they are under ISKON again now.

I don't really agree with the Hare Krishna's ideology, especially since they think that Krishna is kind of the top of the heap of the pantheon, but I don't really think they are bad folks.

Check out the Temple you can do a virtual tour at www.palaceofgold.com .

It's in Moundsville WV near Pittsburg.
 
I know this place..went there in '99,they've got a nice place but like your mom & dad said it's kinda shot-least it was back when I was there probably worse now.
 
Steve Poll said:
I donated a meat grinder.
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I'll bring the charcoal!

Me n you get along jes fine Steve.
 
There are religions in this world that I find odd. Adherents to those religions would probably find mine odd. I take very little personally these days.

That being said, I also love cows. I love them baked, I love them broiled, I love them grilled, I love them fried...
 
Dave Rishar said:
There are religions in this world that I find odd. Adherents to those religions would probably find mine odd. I take very little personally these days.

That being said, I also love cows. I love them baked, I love them broiled, I love them grilled, I love them fried...
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I just had stew meat fried in wok oil and soy sauce with rice last night,I prefer to eat them suckers! :D

Go and worship somethin' inedable I say!
 
Dave Rishar said:
McDonald's?
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:D (or should I say :barf:) :p

But seriously, got no problem with em saving cows (or goats or chipmunks either for that matter). Hell, I'm a vegetarian anway (:cool:), so it's no skin off my back (or meat off my plate). :p
 
Dave that was hilarious. This thread is great.
 
Krull said:
Go and worship somethin' inedable I say!
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That's an important thought because it is really the opposite. If you look at the history of most primitive religions, like the native americans for instance, the primary food animal is often worshipped. Some societies even went as far as to periodically offer human sacrifice as a ritual of atonement to either a deified food animal or to the gods responsible for the harvest.

If you look at it, for instance in Christianity something similar has come down, Jesus giving his life so his followers could have eternal life, is just kind of an extension of that same line of thought.

I don't have any links to this but I once read that the reason that in Hinduisim that cows evolved into getting special protection was that with that population density, that using their manure to cook with, using the milk they gave, and using the oxen as beasts of burden was a more efficient way to feed more people than slaughtering them.

Some, like the Krishnas are vegetarians, some like the Kamis eat meat but not cows.

The Krishnas when they first built New Vrindaban had a commercial dairy. Then it went out of business. I believe that this was because their religious beliefs forbid selling the bull calfs produced for meat so the ratio between the cows they were feeding and the cows they were milking became too great. I guess in other countries there is more of a demand for oxen, or else they just let them starve to death.

I think that illustrates the problems with a lot of religions. Where some of the beliefs evolve due to a specific set of environmental or cultural conditions of a specific place or time, but then don't exactly fit in another culture or context.

Although I think with the level of diabetes, heart disease, and premature death our meat heavy diet produces you could argue that the vegetarian aspect is more relevant now than back when people lived a more active lifestyle. Although maybe you could consider heart disease, hypetension and diabetes as our way of offering human sacrifice to the cow.
 
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