It would make sense to keep a bull or two around for breeding purposes. But, it is highly unlikely that they keep all males. Unlike Jersey cows, which tend to be sweet and docile, Jersey bulls are considered the least docile of all cattle breeds. As steers, they are apparently suitable as draft animals, albeit not the largest and strongest breed for that task. But, can cutting off a bull's balls and enslaving it as a draft animal truly be considered ahimsa?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfri...@yahoo.com> wrote : Not quite true, Alex. One of the males is featured here: http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html http://www.universalfields.org/tala_ram.html Doesn't sound like he's going to end up as veal chops, but perhaps he's the exception. At any rate, the text sounds very respectful and protective of the males. True, which is why unwanted male dairy calves often end up slaughtered young, as veal. It's a huge glaring omission that the website below is totally focused on the cows, with no mention of the males, which make up 50% of the calves born every year. Radiance Dairy in Fairfield operates under basically the same principles, and the owner has no shortage of people who want to buy his male calves, which ultimately end up as little wrapped packages of meat in a freezer. Folks can go on and on all they like about the Vedicness and Sattvicness of milk, but the reality is that with the exception of a few very rare ahimsa dairies, milk production has slaughtered animals as a by-product. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Of course milk cows are not beef cattle. Folks here should read Swami Bhaskarananda's "The Essentials of Hinduism" where he writes about that. It heard tales of him taking a slice of roast beef at a Vedanta Society potluck and putting it on an anemic looking disciple's plate. I met him in the 1970s when he was the new Swami at the Seattle Vedanta Center where the late Bobby Warren took me because "it was a good place to get incense." On 04/27/2014 09:25 AM, srijau@... mailto:srijau@... wrote: A beautiful key to creating Heaven on Earth for all mankind, the proper treatment of the cows http://www.universalfields.org/index.html http://www.universalfields.org/index.html Jai Jai Jai Jai Jai Maharishi-ji!
