Should humans
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drink cow milk?
The popular notion now is that milk from a cow is not meant for human consumption.
I, of course would have to disagree.
After all I am a Hare Krsna.
We are renowned cow worshipers. My reasons for worshiping the cow are scriptural.
But for most of us scriptural reasons are not enough.
There are nutritional reasons why we should drink milk.
There is an attitude developing in our culture, in our artificial culture, that is detrimental to the concept of peace.
It is the idea that we don’t need animals, that we have the right to eat them because they have no other purpose.
But before our lives were flooded with technology, when we lived more natural lives, we relied on animals.
We relied on animals for transport, clothing, food and sometimes even medicines.
According to my scriptures, on an evolutionary scale, the recognition of civilisation started with the domestication of animals.
When we tell ourselves that we don’t need them we are exercising another form of snobbery, a “speciesism”.
We are better than they are because we are more evolved.
Just because we are more evolved does not make us any better.
Is a dog better than a puppy?
Is high school better than first grade?
Without first grade and without puppies, there is no high school or dog. The human race is not so elite that we are separated from animal species. We have separated from animals to the point where we are becoming more brutal with them, as well as with ourselves.
If we don’t see live evolving from animal form, then we fall on the evolutionary scale.
We drop from high school to first grade.
Milk not only provides us with nutrition, it provides us with a loving connection with our less evolved siblings.
From experience I can tell you that milking a cow is a very endearing experience, if one allows it to be, if it is not done mechanically. Unfortunately the dairy industry is too closely connected to the meat industry.
So I can understand why the more compassionate portion of the populace would prefer not to have anything to do with it.
I often wonder if these people would take it upon themselves to take a cow in and love her, would they drink her milk then?
I know I personally would rather drink milk from my own cow. Now for practical reasons I am going to get a bit preachy.
I drink milk because I offer the milk to God and in doing so I cleanse it from any sin and the cow that gives the milk advances spiritually.
We have a connection with animals.
They are not ours to slaughter, or eat.
They have intelligence, feel fear and love.
Ethel Pepper
Bega
Road hoons
Country Roads are rally tracks for P plate hoons.
Recently I was heading along Tantawangalo Mountain road, which is a dirt road starting at Candelo.
At approximately 6pm I was approaching one of the many blind corners when a vehicle with red P plates came drifting around the corner at an estimated speed of over 80kph when all four wheels broke traction.
The driver panicked and almost lost control and had I been a few seconds earlier we would have collided and he would have been seriously injured as well as myself and my step daughter.
If it was a milk truck and not me, it certainly would have ended in injury or death.
I continued a further 15 km up the road and every corner had slide marks where this hoon had been rally driving.
So just a reminder to all parents and young drivers, there is a time and place for this kind of driving, and public roads is not one of them .
Frank Weiss
Tantawangelo
Breathtaking delusion
The capacity for delusion that is characteristic of representatives of the logging industry is astonishing.
On radio recently the National Association of Forest Industries (NAFI) spokesperson, Mr Hansard, stated that NAFI had engaged the University of Queensland to investigate why koalas had moved from National Parks into State Forests in our region.
This is similar to what NAFI was trumpeting in the 1990s: that koalas in the region were thriving in the vibrant regrowth.
Come off it.
As part of its research into the management of koala habitat in the region the university may be able to assess the impact on habitat
quality of the felling and bulldozing of millions of potential koala feed trees in the Eden region over the past 40 years, including those
areas that once sustained koalas that became national parks after logging.
They may also be able to confirm whether the tentative evidence of recovery of koalas in the Mumbulla Forest is more likely to be
explained by the fact that there has been no logging or major fire there for more than 30 years, rather than because of any management strategy by Forest NSW Koalas are very sensitive to any activity near their area.
We are no longer governed by our environment and the laws of nature; 100 years ago that changed and we are now governed by greed.
I have proposed before that no logger loses his/her job and are instead retrained and that the management of State Forests needs to
have a different mindset before entering the forests.
There are alternatives to woodchipping our forests.
Ray Buckley
Yowrie
Drinking age debate
Australia needs to rid itself, by peaceful means if possible, of the growing number of neo-fascists who occupy senior political, bureaucratic and media positions, and are using that power to turn our country into a police state.
The latest proposal is that young adults should not be allowed to drink alcohol until they reach 21 years of age.
This joins a long list of appalling laws over the last decade which has stripped us of fundamental freedoms and safeguards.
Here are a few examples: The increasingly onerous restrictions imposed on young people who want to learn to drive; the appalling lock down laws imposed after the Cronulla riots in 2005; the draconian anti-terror laws of the same year that introduced Orwellian control orders and preventative detention.
The State has failed and the current political system is part of the problem.
Instead of protecting human and legal rights and ensuring necessary safeguards, we have seen an ongoing shift towards neo-fascist policies and laws claiming to protect and deliver security.
Instead what they really do is circumvent tried and tested practises that have heretofore provided judicial scrutiny and a fair hearing.
The proposal to ban alcohol until you reach 21 is another manifestation of the growth in power of the neo-fascists in our society.
They are typically law and order fanatics who tar everybody with the same brush and whose first response to a social problem is to impose tougher sentences.
These people are malignant control freaks who seek a more ordered society at the cost of our spontaneity, our Eureka distrust of authority and our freedom.
Democracy as we know it is not an end in itself.
It must deliver just and reasonable outcomes.
If it doesn’t it is no better than those countries that practise tyranny. There has been so many unjust, immoral and over the top laws passed in the last decade that it is hard to recognise our country any more.
The greatest threat we face is not terrorists, asylum seekers, bikie gangs or organised crime syndicates, the greatest threat to our freedom and security is from the State itself.
We need to reclaim our streets, not from the criminals and hoodlums, but from those who use our democratic system to impose tyranny.
Adam Bonner
Brogo