Sustainable Agriculture
A return to organic (pesticide-free) farming means fewer insects
are killed. Vegan author John Robbins advocates a return to organic farming
in his 1987 Pulitzer Prize nominated, Diet for a New America, which
documents environmental devastation as the collective karma for killing
animals.
Wouldn't sustainable agriculture have to be vegan? I'm not saying we should
be "keeping up with the (vegan) Catholics" but Srila Prabhupada taught us
that abortion and war are the collective karma for killing animals.
During the Vietnam War, Srila Prabhupada scoffed at the peace activists and
hippies. He did not say, "Yes, in the 11th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam,
Lord Krishna tells Uddhava, 'this human form of life is dear to Me,' so
let's first end the Vietnam War because human beings are being killed, and
then we'll shut down the slaughterhouses..."
We can't stand up to "meat-eating pacifists," "meat-eating
environmentalists," "meat-eating anti-hunger activists," or "meat-eating
pro-lifers" if we ourselves are killing cows (by consuming commercial dairy
products)!
My friend Tim Parks, a pro-life Christian said in 2005 that he thought the
Dalai Lama was a hypocrite for saying the people of Tibet have a "special
dispensation" which allows them to eat meat! (Kind of like the gurus in our
movement claiming the factory farmed cows will be blessed if their milk is
offered to Lord Krishna?)
As early as a 1982 issue of Back to Godhead, Hridayananda dasa Goswami was
asking, "Is Something Wrong in the Right-to-Life Movement?" Haribol!
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