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Hare Krishna! I am very pleased to present a nice store with products that have the Protectacow Artwork and Photographs proudly dissplayed on them. With the purchase of any of our products, from books to underwear, all images have a Cow or Ox/Bull that is Protected as in Srila Prabhupada's instructions for us all. We have purposely kept all prices as low as they can be, and any profit goes to feed and upkeep of Prabhupada's "pet project" the Protection of Krishna's Cows, Oxen and Bulls. Please visit the store http://www.cafepress.com/protectacow

My brother recently was telling me that he does not think it is right to kill plants for food. I asked him when was the last time that he killed a Apple Tree when he ate an apple? Or when was the time that he killed a Wheat,Oat or Rye plant when he ate some grains. (all grains are harvested after the plant died and dryed up) Or a Potatoe, they too die before we harvest the tuber underground. Did you ever wonder why it is called "amber waves of grain"? When the grain is growing and alive it is green, it is not untill it dries up that it is harvested. I am a farmer myself and have never killed a plant to eat it.

Since there are numerous quotes for "Economic" within our Protectacow website, i am posting the link for all of the times when Srila Prabhupada uses that word in our published posts. Also here are some quotes from Srila Prabhupada's Protect a Cow farm website (click on them to get the full quote)....... this quote is a link, click on it Just see how the economic problems will be solved simply by one movement, this Krsna consciousness movement. Try to understand. Mahi. Because mahi will produce everything. Just like here in this Letchmore Heath there are so many, so much land lying vacant. You produce you own food. Why you are going to London, to the factories? There is no need. This is wrong civilization. Here is land. You produce your food. If you produce your food, there is no need of going hundred miles, fifty miles on your motorcycle or motor to earn your livelihood. Why? There is no need. Then you require petrol. And petrol there is scarcity. Then you require so many parts, so many.... That means you are making the whole thing complicated unnecessarily. Unnecessarily. There is no need. Simply you keep to the land and produce your food, and the cows are there. They will supply you milk. Then where is your economic problems. If you have sufficient grains, sufficient vegetables, sufficient milk from the land where you are living, where your economic problem? Why you should go to other place? That is Vedic civilization. Everyone should remain in the spot and produce everything as he requires, and God will help you. Because you can produce from the land anywhere. this Prabhupada quote is a link, click on it The basic principle of economic development is centered on land and cows. The necessities of human society are food grains, fruits, milk, minerals, clothing, wood, etc. One requires all these items to fulfill the material needs of the body. click this quote for entire post How they were happy, the inhabitants of Vrndavana with Krsna and living and cows. That I want to introduce. At any cost do it and... Don't bother about big, big buildings. It is not required. Useless waste of time. Produce. Make the whole field green. See that. Then whole economic question solved. Finally click this link to view entire collection of results for "economic" in our weblog Protectacow! I gotta' get back to work, for Prabhupada!

If you Protect a Cow for Srila Prabhupada and Govinda as they Advocated, and then you got nice Cream from that Protected Cow, and put it in the Coffee, then you would be doing something positive for Prabhupada and Krishna. So they would be pleased w/you, and bless you that you do not need that coffee, and the taste would be less, you would give it up. So Protectacow for Prabhupada and Krishna today! It is so purifying, and recommended too!

I just found a quote by Bhisma Prabhu from the Mahabharata. In this long quote from Bhisma Prabhu he points out how the Cow is not only the Mother of all Humanity, but even of the Deity Themselves. If you have any respect for the Deity, then think of how much respect you should have for the Deity's Mother.

And then he rigorously advocated Protecting Cows himself, just as Krishna's example did. Prabhupada's disciples went to great lengths to provide Prabhupada with Protected Cow's Milk, we used to drive in car with our milk for 5 hours to do so. I think his idea was to have satellite temples of his farm communities, growing and milking on their own, providing the necessities to the city temple. Prabhupada Paris, August 2, 1976 : In Allahabad I was keeping cow, there was facility.......... http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2005/04/prabhupada_in_a.html#more

I was told that i was a "spiritual archeologist" when i found Prabhupada's first written article on his mission in the west. Which was not republished untill our Archeology. You just reminded me of it, and you were not getting much replies to your question, sorry ! archeology: The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence. spiritual archeology: The systematic study of past Acharya life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence. Butler Eagle Times sept.22,1965

we uncovered A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami's first news article on his mission to the USA, when he had been in the Us. for only about 5 days! check out our Spiritual Archeology.............http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2005/08/protectacow_exc.html Protectacow Exclusive! Srila Prabhupada's first article written about his mission in the west sept.22,1965 Butler Eagle, Pennsylvania Protectacow Archives Exclusive! Excerpt from article: "Life and Milk of Cow" is all-important to the Swamiji's way of life; all else is artificial, he claims.

Krishna Book Chapter Six Putana Killed, excerpts........... http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2006/02/this_incident_g.html#more When the gopis saw little Krsna fearlessly playing on Putana's lap, they very quickly came and picked Him up. Mother Yasoda, Rohini, and other elderly gopis immediately performed the auspicious rituals by taking the tail of a cow and circumambulating His body. The child was completely washed with the urine of a cow, and the dust created by the hooves of the cows was thrown all over His body. This was all just to save little Krsna from future inauspicious accidents. This incident gives us a clear indication of how important the cow is to the family, society and to living beings in general. http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2006/02/this_incident_g.html#more

I believe to conceive children in Krishna Consciousness, is Pure! And in our line of Acharyas most did have children, are you saying that when they did so, they contaminated the thread by performing Bhakti Yoga within a Krishna Conscious Family? I think it is purifying. the following excerpt from recent Acharya can be viewed here..... http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2005/01/madya_lila_chai.html#more View page here..................-------->>>>>>http://protectacow.typepad.com/goshalla/2005/01/madya_lila_chai.html#more January firewood gathering for the family.

COW PROTECTION In 1973, Europe's first Cow Protection Project was started at Bhaktivedanta Manor. As the name suggests, the cows are cared for during their entire lives. The programme aims to show how cows and bulls living in a cruelty-free environment will give milk and do agricultural work and transport. The Cow Protection Project is set within the Bhaktivedanta Manor's estate of 77 acres. From the shelter of the cow barns the cows wander each day into the pastures and woodlands to graze. Their lives are natural and carefree, under the devotional farm management and congregational community. There are currently almost 30 oxen (bulls) in the herd, with an annual increase of 3 calves per year. The breeding schedule will eventually reach a plateau of about 60 animals. About 7 cows give 20,000 litres of milk a year. The newborn calves drink to their fill for about 10 to 12 days, and then, when they start to nibble grass, they are pastured separately from their mums but still get their milk twice a day. After 5 or 6 months, they no longer need daily milk. Our bulls really begin their productive life when they reach age three, at which time they are trained to plough and to pull carts and equipment. Being naturally muscular and strong they thrive when their power is put to practical use. Besides carting, they help pull the mowers and turners for hay-making. They also like to drive the gear system for making flour and rolling their own food. Ploughing is a special challenge for them because they have to walk in a very straight line, but with a bit of practice they easily master it. Sometimes they are invited to the local towns for carnivals and processions, and often they take the lead position. Each year thousands of children from across the country are enchanted by the oxen, as the kids are driven on a tour of the farm and grounds by an ox-wagon designed for this purpose. The cows and oxen are a part of the life of the residents and guests of Bhaktivedanta Manor. The Manor offers an alternative, God-centred and natural life to anyone challenged by the complexities of modern life. In our care for the cows we recognise the economic challenges of maintaining such large animals in an environment of cheap food and in a country primarily non-vegetarian in diet. However, the cows produce an auspicious atmosphere of good fortune and mental satisfaction that is hard to value but can only be experienced. The special, God-given symbiosis between cows and man is especially important and historically inseparable. We know that by pleasing the cows and bulls, humanity simultaneously pleases the Supreme Lord, Krishna. We warmly invite you to visit the Bhaktivedanta Manor Cow Protection Project any day between 0900 and 1800, and if you want a guided tour, then watch for the open days. If you want to bring some food for the cows, the suitable things are carrots, cabbages, potatoes, spinach and gur (jaggery-sugar). Please ensure that you ask a member of the farm staff before feeding the cows. (It is likely that you will be asked to feed only a token, the rest being put aside for later).

Yes this above story is very nice. The Voiths have done huge preaching how the sub chapter of being a Hindu as a Hare Krishna means that you are a Cow Protector. This is the FUNdamental position of a Krishna Devotee! This story has made it around the whole world, and not once have they been connected to any bad cults, where illegal crimes have been committed. This story is all about the Right to practise Krishna Bhakti, and to do so, one has to be able to Protect Cows. That is their FUNdamental Right and Position. click this link to go directly to another great Cow Protector for Srila Prabhupada.........>Srila Prabhupada instructed his followers to find ways and means to inaugurate the Hindu tradition of protecting cows in America, because without protection of the cow, Brahminical culture cannot be maintained. and click this link to view the first article written about Prabhupada in America 1965 (results of Protectacow's Spiritual Archeology Digging!)..................>Excerpt from article:" Life and Milk of Cow" is all-important to the Swamiji's way of life; all else is artificial, he claims.

Prabhupada: Yes. That I want. I... Everywhere I go and say, how these rascals...? So much land is lying, and these rascals are not developing. And they are making... What is that? Coal stone. Coal. They are interested with these bricks and stones, not green vegetables. Such a rascal government. Give them facility. We know how to do it. Annad bhavanti bhutani parjanyad anna-sambhavah, yajnad bhavati parjanyah. Let them engage in kirtana. There will be more water for gardening, and it will be moist, and then produce fodder for the animals and food for you. And animal gives you milk. That is Vrndavana life. And they are absorbed in this so-called opulence. Krsna has taken birth. They are bringing so many nice, pleasant foodstuff, very well-dressed and ornamented. These are description. In the morning we were reading. How they were happy, the inhabitants of Vrndavana with Krsna and living and cows. That I want to introduce. At any cost do it and... Don't bother about big, big buildings. It is not required. Useless waste of time. Produce. Make the whole field green. See that. Then whole economic question solved. Then you eat sumptuous. Eat sumptuously. The animal is happy. The animal even does not give milk; let them eat and pass stool and urine. That is welcome. After all, eating, they will pass stool. So that is beneficial, not that simple milk is beneficial. Even the stool is beneficial. Therefore I am asking so much here and..., "Farm, farm, farm, farm..." That is not my program--Krsna's program. Annad bhavanti bhutani. Produce greenness everywhere, everywhere. Vrndavana. It is not this motorcar civilization. Prabhupada: How they were happy, the inhabitants of Vrndavana with Krsna and living and cows. That I want to introduce. At any cost do it

I will have to speculate the answer to these questions Srila Prabhupada.................... ... first perhaps your followers do not have the faith in you, and Krishna to do as you instruct? Perhaps it is because they do not like "simple living", and want to have a nice car, tv, radio, satellite service, store bought food, fancy cloths, nice house in a fancy neighborhood? Perhaps they are just trapped by the maya of these things and can not think of a way to escape? Perhaps they think that you and Krishna are just influenced by "gandi" or Nanda Maharaja? Perhaps they are just more into "high living and simple thinking"? Perhaps they are influenced by their parents or peers, or institutionalized religions gone bad? There could be many many reasons i guess? But one thing is for sure Srila Prabhupada, you and Krishna by your examples and teaching/instructions have given them many many chances to do the right thing. And if they think it is "ok" to just keep going on for ever this way, for ever, without protecting their own mother, and father in the shape of the Cow and Bull, either by supporting those who are Protecting our 4 legged parents or by doing so themselves, while taking the benefits of these parents, someday soon they will reap the Karma of this selfish act, is'nt that right? <font color="blue"> Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1 Chapter 10 Verse 4......................excerpt from purport......................It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk because their milk bags were fatty and the animals were <font color="black">joyfull. </font color> Do they not require, therefore, <font color="black">proper protection for a joyful life </font color>by being fed with a sufficient quantity of grass in the field? <font color="black"> Why should men kill cows for their selfish purposes? </font color> Why should man not be satisfied with grains, fruits and milk, which, combined together, can produce hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes. Why are there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill innocent animals?[/ </font color> As a supporter of Cow Protection and only a Webservant of Protectacow, i beg the forgiveness for these speculations, and they are not official Protectacow statements, just my own thoughts as servant of the Cow Herd Boys/Girls.

<font color="blue"> By His personal example Lord Krishna wanted to teach us the value of protecting cows. Nanda Maharaja is said to have possessed nine hundred thousand cows, and at the time of Lord Sri Krsna (about five thousand years ago) the tract of land known as Vrndavana was flooded with milk and butter. Therefore God's gifted professions for mankind are agriculture and cow protection ............. </font color> from our Position Paper> "The Light of the Bhagavat".....click this link to read much much more on the importance according to Lord Krishna and A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami........ The protection of cows, therefore, is not merely a religious sentiment but a means to secure the highest benefit for human society.

Most of my "ideas" regarding Protecting Cows are not my ideas at all , but rather brought to us from Lord Krishna through the Founder/Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, are you familiar? And in my above reply, i informed you that for the first few months the cow would give a lot, but after that "fresh" period, she would give about 2 gallons. 2 gallons for a family of 5 is not that much, considering the ghee, yogurt, curd etc. that you could make. Show a little mercy, protect your Mother! <font color="blue">Krishna Book chapter six excerpt: When the gopis saw little Krsna fearlessly playing on Putana's lap, they very quickly came and picked Him up. Mother Yasoda, Rohini, and other elderly gopis immediately performed the auspicious rituals by taking the tail of a cow and circumambulating His body. The child was completely washed with the urine of a cow, and the dust created by the hooves of the cows was thrown all over His body. This was all just to save little Krsna from future inauspicious accidents. This incident gives us a clear indication of how important the cow is to the family, society and to living beings in general. The transcendental body of Krsna did not require any protection, but to instruct us on the importance of the cow, the Lord was smeared over with cow dung, washed with the urine of a cow, and sprinkled with the dust upraised by the walking of the cows. </font color> See entire chapter six of Krishna book here........

Room Conversation Bhubaneshwar, January 31, 1977 Prabhupada: And therefore I'm asking. Potential is wonderful, so why they are not attracted to live in the farm and be self-independent and chant Hare Krsna? That is our farm project. Our farm project is they should be satisfied with simple living. That is nice living. If you get milk, if you get fruit, if you get grain and open air, it is very healthy life. Why they should not be attracted? And other things--very simple: little milk, little food grain, little vegetable, that's all. And that is very nice. If you get fresh vegetable, fresh milk, and food grain, what do you want more?

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Are you familiar with A C Bhaktivedanta Swami's books,letters and conversations? Since all of these questions are answered there. the numbers are similar from 5 to 500! Just multiplied 100 times. And 5 is much more reasonable so lets use that! One Protected Cow (actually protected to deity standards) can give milk for years, and years, i have seen a few milk past 10 years happily, but all those were using standards as high as one may use for the deity in the temple. And those doing the Protecting had the complete trust of the Protected. So a family of 5 can get by with one cow, and that cow would have one calf for that lactation. A cow can give up to about 100 pounds when "fresh". But that is a cow that is protected as mentioned above and lives with lush grasses, and is the larger type, (holstein, brown swiss etc.) This amount will slowly taper off to 18 months, where she will stay more steady at around 20 pounds or 2 gallons. It is good to have around 1 acre of land per cow. Your last question of cost would have to be figured according to place, land and many more variables. click on the below links for our Founder/Acharya's full quotes on these subjects........ .... if the cow is protected, given right nutritious food and protection, cow will supply you milk so long she lives. As long as she lives . That is our mission: Cow protection and agriculture and if there is excess, trade. Our cows are happy, therefore they give plenty of milk. Lord Krsna as Govinda is more inclined to the brahmanas and the cows, indicating thereby that human prosperity depends more on these two items, namely brahminical culture and cow protection. Lord Krsna is never satisfied where these are lacking.

excerpts from Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's Vani The Brahma Samhita........ Krsna as truly visioned in His variegated pastimes, such as owner of transcendental cows, chief of cowherds, consort of milk-maids, ruler of the terrestrial abode Gokula and object of worship by transcendental residents of Goloka beauties, is Govinda. Sri Jiva Gosvami writes in his work Gopala-campu that "the supreme transcendental realm is called Goloka being the abode of go, transcendental cows, and gopa, transcendental cowherds. I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of laksmis or gopis. Brahma Samhita Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Vani

When i first viewed the video of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, i thought....."wow, that is neat" and went back through, but i felt unsatisfied, why can i not see his face? So i tried and tried to pause the video to see his face, and could not. But in the trying and trying i started to think......"this just does not look real, it looks faked, too much like a modern video, with special effects to make it look old and worn". Now don't get me wrong, if this is the real thing, i am very pleased to see our Spiritual Grandfather, he makes me feel very humble, him being a life long brahmacari, and me just a dog. And now i have been shown "proof" that this video is a fake. click here to see "proof" that is a fake But again i remember that we have been told by our Founder/Acharya A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, that the Vapu is not as important as the Vani. While this Video may or may not be valid, either way, we do have something that is Valid and is the Sound Vibration/Vani of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. While we are working on presenting the Brahma Samhita as it is at our Protectacow Website i thought wise to atleast have it for viewing at our sub site Krishna Consciousness Click this link to go to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's Vani The Brahma-Samhita

This is Deva, one of our Oxen resting after the sun had gone down here at Protectacow Farm and Cow Sanctuary. Check it out! There are also many more images there as well as a rare photo of Prabhupada under a tree instructing disciples in Cow Protection, where it all started.

A friend of ours inspired us to do a search of "save timefarm" of The Complete Works of A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, here are a couple, also follow the link/quote below for many many more quotes.... /images/graemlins/grin.gif ..............Srila Prabhupada: We should not be attracted by the modern city life. Simplified life. Save time and utilize for advancing in Krsna consciousness. That is perfect life. Just like Vrndavana. Vrndavana life means agriculturist, cowherd boys, uneducated girls, cows and calves, and tree, fruits. This is Vrndavana. The center is Krsna................ read and click this below quote from Srila Prabhupada to see many more........ The cows are very nice and so are the sheds. This farm project you should consider very important. The idea is that people can be self sufficient and raise their own foodstuffs and have sufficient milk to save time and chant Hare Krishna. Why should they work so hard in the hellish factories? Let everyone live simply and be Krsna conscious.

The following is from this page, click this link A sealed water-tight circular pit, normally about ten feet deep, is made of concrete to which manure (from cows, buffalos and other livestock) is added regularly. As far as adding human waste to the mix, even though bacteria is killed in the combustion process, it is generally not done. Alternate materials may be used for constructing this pit as desired. A wall is built across the middle of the pit, extending from the bottom almost to the top. The manure is mixed with water in the intake basin which flows thru the piping to the bottom of the left side. This side of the cylinder gradually fills and overflows to the right side. When both sides of the cylinder are full, the manure effluent flows out from the bottom of the right side each time more raw manure is added to the left. Manure residue from the decomposition process comes out in a concentrated form and is used for fertilizer. What comes out on the right is of more value as fertilizer than the raw manure. So the methane gas produced from this decomposition is an added byproduct which is literally "something for nothing," after the initial construction expense. The concoction produces methane which rises to the top and collects under a large metal dome As the gas builds pressure it is routed via a rubber tube to a gas stove in a kitchen where it is used for cooking. India is a leader in gobar gas technology, and there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of gobar gas plants in India. Please read the following related articles for further information: Gobar Gas Methane Experiments in India Proposal to Generate Compressed Gobar Gas Updating Biogas (Gobar) Technology

Pray for Our Mother, who freely gives us her milk and Cow Power even though she is on "death row"......... Thanks Suchandra, i have hesitated giving this news below, because the Cows for this program are "culled" when they are deemed unusefull by the cow killers. But just to show that the system of generating electricity works well in other places here it is.........