The cow is especially meant for the human beings. They can utilize in so many ways, and they should give protection, such an important animal. This is human being.
[Posted
Nov 2, 2010]Adding value to milk is key to cow protection
Milk can be converted into many value-added products
Los Angeles Times Oct 21, 2010
- KIRSTIN JACKSON
Artisan cheese-making brings them a new slice of life
For five generations, Karen Bianchi-Moreda's family had been dairy farmers in the Sonoma town of Valley Ford. The year 2009 almost changed all that as she watched her neighbors leave the business one after another. Then she found cheese.
Now her dairy, Valley Ford Cheese Co., is one of several across the country that have found new life by turning their focus from commodity milk into making some of the best artisan cheeses in the nation.
These are hard times for small dairy farmers — there are water shortages, corporate dairy processors are paying an average 40% less for milk than they did two years ago, exports are falling, and the cost of hay, cattle feed and gas are skyrocketing. go to story
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The so-called vaishyas — the industrialists or businessmen — are involved in big, big industrial enterprises, but they are not interested in food grains and milk. However, as indicated here, by digging for water, even in the desert, we can produce food grains; when we produce food grains and vegetables, we can give protection to the cows; while giving protection to the cows, we can draw from them abundant quantities of milk; and by getting enough milk and combining it with food grains and vegetables, we can prepare hundreds of nectarean foods. We can happily eat this food and thus avoid industrial enterprises and joblessness. more
Milk to be utilised to the last drop
excerpt from conversation, New Vrindaban, June 29, 1976
HARI-SAURI: They have some skim milk. So when they've finished giving it to the devotees and they've finished giving it to the cows, then if there's any extra, they throw it away.
PRABHUPADA: How give it to the cows?
HARI-SAURI: They feed it to the cows.
PRABHUPADA: They eat?
HARI-SAURI: They drink it. They put it in their feed, whatever. But then if there's any extra, they throw it away, they put on the..., mix it with fertilizer or whatever for the land.
PRABHUPADA: It should not be given to the cows. It should be kept, and when it is broken, you get the chana [fresh cheese].
HARI-SAURI: It should be made into curd and yogurt, things like that.
PRABHUPADA: Yes, not yogurt, chana, what you call, curd?
PUSTA KRSNA: Cheese, like cheese.
PRABHUPADA: Cheese, yes? But it should not be thrown. From cheese you can make so many preparations.
HARI-SAURI: I'll mention it to Kuladri then.
PRABHUPADA: Yes.
PUSTA KRSNA: You mentioned also about the whey that you get.
PRABHUPADA: Everything should be utilized. Instead of drinking water, you can drink whey. It is very good for digesting. Whey, put little salt and black pepper, it is good digestant. You can avoid water, drink whey. You can use it for chapati [flat bread].
PUSTA KRSNA: Making dough?
PRABHUPADA: Chapati, just like you dip the capati, dal, you can dip whey. You can save dal preparing expenditure. Nothing of milk product can be wasted. You should learn it.
HARI-SAURI: Yes. That's what I thought, that's why I was asking.
PRABHUPADA: Up to the last drop, it can be utilized.
HARI-SAURI: Everything.
PUSTA KRSNA: Skim milk should not be given to the calves? The calves should get?
PRABHUPADA: They don't require it. They don't require it. The cow is especially meant for the human beings. They can utilize in so many ways, and they should give protection, such an important animal. This is human being.
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