This Vedic civilization was that keep some land and keep some cows. Then your whole economic question is solved.
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January 29, 2010]Global Economy a Malignant Growth
The industrial, technological and economic advancements of the last century age swallowed up small farmers and small businesses. Everything had to be big, and the bigger the better, but now we've seen the fallacy of "Too big to fail", and our over-dependence on commercial farming for food and energy is fueling a global food crisis; Community prosperity is rooted in local - not global - interdependence.
Guardian Jan 22, 2010
- JOHN VIDAL
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people, new figures show
One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
... "The grain grown to produce fuel in the US [in 2009] was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels," said Lester Brown, the director of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington thinktank ithat conducted the analysis.
Last year 107m tonnes of grain, mostly corn, was grown by US farmers to be blended with petrol. This was nearly twice as much as in 2007, when Bush challenged farmers to increase production by 500% by 2017 to save cut oil imports and reduce carbon emissions. go to story
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Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs. more
Three months of work for a year's stock of grains
excerpt from lecture on BG 13.35, Geneva, June 6, 1974
In India, we have seen that a cultivator produces three, four kinds of food grains in a year. That is the system...That is the system that in India every man is producing his food grains independently. Now it is stopped. Formerly, all these men, they used to produce their food grain. So they used to work for three months in a year, and they could stock the whole year's eatable food grains. Life was very simple. After all, you require to eat. So this Vedic civilization was that keep some land and keep some cows. Then your whole economic question is solved.
Model village life for simple living
excerpt from conversation, Mauritius, Oct 5, 1975
GUEST: Now the program in the village, Swamiji, how to...
PRABHUPADA: Village... Just like you acquire some land. That you will get. It is not very... Is it difficult?
GUEST: No, sir.
PRABHUPADA: Just we are doing so many places. So you produce your own food grains, not for making money but just for feeding yourself and the animals, cows. Keep cows, as many cows as possible, and produce, till the ground, field, and make water supply arrangement. If the investment is required, we shall do that. You have no worry about investment. We shall bring money from anywhere. But the work must be done very nicely. There must be good arrangement for water supply and for plowing and keeping the cows in order. Then you get sufficient milk, sufficient food grains and produce your own cloth. The girls and ladies, they can spin thread, and from the thread you make cloth, handlooms. So your first necessities of life, eating, and make little cottage, sleeping... And if you want sex, get yourself married, live peacefully. And when you are there you can defend yourself. So the first necessity is how to eat and how to cover. That you have to provide. That is not difficult. You can do it. And then you become peaceful, no anxiety for your maintenance. And then cultivate this spiritual knowledge the same way. Have a temple there. Have... Go on chanting, offering prasadam. You have got your food grains. Don't be dependent on anyone else. Become self-independent. And don't be after money. Simply produce your bare necessities of life. Keep yourself fit, strong. And chant Hare Krishna, read book. Then you'll grow strong. Is there any difficulty?
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