Natural Farmers Kerala

25 Replies to “The cock and bull story of Kerala’s cattle-development policy – Part 2”

1. We are among the fast disappearing folks who care for a cow in our home in keeping with tradition. For the last 15 years we have struggled to maintain the byre clean, feed and look after the cow, milk and persuade neighbours to buy fresh milk. I realize that our difficulties are to a large extant due to a. We want plenty of milk without thinking if we need it at all or what it costs b. The new breeds are just milkers , but otherwise useless c. By curtailing their natural grazing and breeding instincts the cows have become weak and lack resistance to common ailments d. Everybody is forced to follow the recommendations of AHD , since very few people have the experience and inclination to practice sustainable dairying. This piece was very informative. Kudos to Cowherd.

2. Anoop thanks for capturing cowherd’s comments in your blog.

   Cowherd is as usual a fantastic and very informative writer. I have read and reread each and every article of his (I hope so 🙂 ).
   THANK YOU brother cowherd!! Can’t say it enough and please keep sharing.

   I would recommend each and everyone of you to read Cowherd’s posts on natural farming and particularly regarding “Endosulphan” disasters at farmnest.com

   Anoop, Cowherd and others
   It is such a shame that the officials/planners absolutely throw away thousands of years of rich Indian wisdom, such excellent animals, native plants that India has been bestowed with, without any deep understanding, caution or foresight about the impact of their actions. Even hard to digest is that the population lets it happen.
   Unfortunately we cannot go back to the past and undo these horrendous mistakes despite how badly we want to do it.

   What I would like to ask is, how we can help correct the situation? Given the omnipresence of TV, print media, can’t those be tapped in any way? Unfortunately just restricting to digital media does not help. It has to happen through TV. Masses to have hear this, take notice and action. I would love for someone to do a deep interview with Cowherd about these issues (series would be even better to tap into his vast knowledge). Any one with TV contacts?

   I plan to return shortly from US and raise a few native cows in a farm. As I drive across the deserts in Nevada etc, I keep listening about the delays in starting up of solar plants in this area to help preserve few desert plants. I stopped my car to look at the plants they are talking about and I barely see few small plants across many Sq. Kms of land. THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF IMPORTANCE THEY ATTACH TO PRESERVING EVERYTHING. And here we are, absolutely destroying our wealth without any thought.

   Change is constant and we must embrace changes, new ideas etc. However, due diligence and caution is needed. As the wise saying goes, do not throw away water in your hands for the rains yet to come.

   Even if it is a small step, we must start and sustain our efforts to preserve and restore our treasures. Jai Hind!

   1. We don’t need solar panels etc that are costly to maintain. Can we stop constantly imitating the west for everything? They keep damaging the country.

      Light is given to us for free by the sun and moon. Wake up 4am and finish all your work during daylight hours. Be at home when it gets dark. Make use of moonlight.

      People are over consuming energy because they are out late nights siting in clubs, bars, driving with headlights on. If people did not engage in these unnecessary nightlife behaviors we would save tremendous energy. Why can’t people plan to have fun during daylight hours only? Maybe public places should open at 4 am?

      1. India is the shadow of the west. When the west moves we are the dark shadow on the ground to follow it. Can’t we be our own light?

         Whenever I see Indians discussing solutions to these problems, all the time a white person is there spying on the process. And whenever an Indian proposes a solution, often it comes from a Western source. They have no mind of their own.

         When India kept the West out for decades, mentally they remained in the minds of decision makers Indian in appearance, but white in consciousness, it didn’t matter if they wore a mundu, dhoti, veshti, thundu, kurta or turban, they were mentally white people, who wear the same bleached white cloth. If you look at an Indian legislature all you see is a sea of white clad men. White in consciousness, white in attire.

         When the British came to India they would brainwash the little boy princes at birth by having white nannies raise them. Then when they grew into a prince the British sat behind the boy dictating everything through him. He had no mind of his own, he was sadly raised to be a puppet. The so called educated Indians are not educated they’re just puppets or dummies the West speaks through or pulls the strings on.

         Gandhi had a brilliant idea. If a psychopath starts dictating to everyone to do something illogical, show the power to say no.

         1. It is unconstitutional or illegal to go against the will of a person and to force them to do something by coercion or threat of violence or arrest. The people who claim to enforce the law are actually forcing everyone to break the law! And therefore those who accuse others of being criminals are actually the criminals themselves forcing everyone to break the law inspired by the supreme law which is dharma. Why we are giving our power to these people? They are extracting power out of us to use it against us. Gandhi had a simple message, if it goes against dharma don’t do it. Say no.

            Why a minority of psychopaths are forcing everyone to become a psychopath like them? If tax dollars are being used to buy weapons to be used against their own tax payers then don’t pay taxes. Why pay someone to harm you? Yet we blindly pay the taxes. If people do out of fear and not knowledge that will have asuric or demonic effect. This is the root problem, we are not acting with knowledge. Therefore these demonic effects are going on.

            When we go to temple we blindly give donation money not knowing what they actually do with that money. Instead of giving money offer to buy something of real need like flowers. Money can be abused, but a flower you personally offer can’t. Many temples eliminated their native breed cow herds and replaced them with import breeds because someone got money awarded to them for every native breed cow they eliminated. The temple cow sheds are in terrible condition with very unhappy cows constantly tied up. Public money is financing misery within the temple and within the society because it seems politicians are pocketing the donation money since temples are controlled by the government. They are using good to finance evil.

            Society is not becoming more intelligent, a famous economist stated that the more specialized an economy becomes, the more stupid people become because they lack common sense and general knowledge. People don’t even know how to take care of themselves. Politicians or many professionals don’t even know how to cook tasty nutritious food or understand basic nutritional chemistry or how to grow food for themselves or raise a happy healthy child. When a maid is doing everything for you, how can you know the realities of food and nutrition? They are bald, pot bellied with dysfunctional families and yet they are making health decisions for us and yet they can’t even take care of their own health? Balding, obesity pot bellied stomachs, burping are due to nutritional deficiencies. Yet, they claim there is food? We have a famine going on, because the definition of food is not something that has the physical appearance of food, food has to nutritionally function like food to be called food. Since most food produced lacks this, we are technically having a famine, in a different form. We have generated a lot of garbage food based on a garbage science.

            Every time we mass produce food according to western production models, we destroy its nutritional value and hide the rancid noxious smell with synthetic fragrances and deodorization. It is made to appear like food, but within the body it doesn’t nutritionally function like food and therefore is not real food but a maya an illusion of food. It doesn’t have the shakti or life sustaining energy. Mass production of food therefore goes against dharma.

            1. We have millionaire celebrities who look malnourished and starved. There is only so much makeup, wig wearing, skin bleaching, hair dying a person can do to hide their nutritional deficiencies. Most beauty products and beauty parlors are not about promoting beauty but hiding nutritional deficiencies, not curing them, but prolonging them making them worse. Gray hair, dark circles, thin hair, split ends, balding, pot bellies, skin spots dry skin, acne, bad breath, yellowing teeth, cavities are all due to nutritional deficiencies or related. The rise in the sales of such beauty products is a sign there is a alarming rise in nutritional deficiencies, not a rise in more beautiful people. Don’t you think this is a sign of famine?

               People are too scared to eat food because they fear it won’t metabolize or digest. So it just sits in the body collecting doing nothing, as stored fat, thus making you fat. So they starve themselves, and whatever food they do end up eating still makes them nutritionally deficient. Don’t you think this is a sign of famine? And this is occurring among all people, even the most wealthy. So when there is famine in the house of a millionaire don’t you think this is a sign the current food production model is a problem, a myth, an illusion?

   2. “how we can help correct the situation?”
      Indian consumers need to stop consuming Western lifestyle products made with milk. Anything:
      -baked
      -with cheese
      -with chocolate
      -with milk like coffees, teas
      -with butter
      -with cream or ice cream

      If you notice,the majority of these foods are not necessities for human nutrition and are mainly junk foods. Pizza, burgers with cheese, pasta with cheese, chocolates, desserts, pastries, birthday cakes, mochas, lattes, movie theater popcorn, ice creams, cream filled desserts and gelatos….I’ve noticed Indian women are baking more and making such products at home even. this is how the milk is over consumed. I can elaborate more, but doing so over writing can overwhelm.

      Traditionally milk was consumed seasonally, not year round in the form of ghee, buttermilk, and curd.

      1. We need to have more imagination when we think of milk. Import breed cow milk is consumed in ways we don’t realize.
         Often we are manipulated into consuming cow milk in forms we least expect that are unnecessary. This is creating immense strain and misery for cows.

         Breast feeding can help cut down on unnecessary cow milk consumption.

         Babies are not breast fed these days, instead baby formula is given to them which I think is import breed cow milk. A lot of milk consumed is not fresh, but in powdered form that is reconstituted with water. Many pediatricians are asking females to breast feed because human breast milk gives more immunity power to the child. Yet, females need loving guidance and help from their elders to teach them how to manage this. Many babies are not nursed directly by their mothers they are given to a nanny or mother in law or grandmother to do so. So females are not knowing how to nurse a child, they are not with the child after delivery, so they buy baby formula probably made from import breed cow milk so someone else can also feed the child.

         Avoid unnecessary gimmicky products promising you healthier body etc. backed by fake science, endorsed by actors who play the role of fake doctors in ads etc. There is real science and fake science. Often the science promoted on TV is fake science.

         Many products sold as protein powder or whey protein comes from the leftover water from cheese making. People who drink health drinks, sports drinks, do body building etc buy these powders sold in giant containers. This I think these are unnecessary to buy.

         People think eating cheese is vegetarian, but actually cheese is made from milk that is coagulated by an acid I think and this acid comes from the stomach or intestinal lining of an animal. It’s called rennet. Many rennets are animal derived and I doubt it comes from a living animal. And yet one of the most popular foods among Indians especially vegetarians is pizza and I don’t think it’s purely vegetarian. It must having rennet in it. This left over rennet might be in the protein powders or whey powders mentioned above and even butter because many butters are made from the left over solids from the water leftover from cheese making. So eating cheese or by products of cheese making may not be vegetarian.

         Elders please stop gifting chocolates, cookies and ice creams to the children! You are not making them healthy, but more obese by doing so. It’s not a sign of love, but ignorance. Express love in other ways, go to a flower show, buy fruits instead for the children. Come up with creative alternatives. Or no need for gift, your presence is the ultimate present as they say on the wedding cards I get these days that insist on no gifts. I will be honest, someone told me every time they get a gift they donate it or throw it, it’s too much to manage in an overly cluttered house, and often what is gifted is not needed. Often I see chocolates given by people trying to get rid of the chocolates someone else gave them. Please don’t buy the chocolates. Even gift cards that are gifted are given away to companies for cash. Now imagine the cow is producing milk for things essentially thrown away or not wanted.
         Farmers produce a lot of food but they don’t know what happens to that food. A lot of it is misused or thrown away.

         We have a lifestyle problem that is creating this unnecessary consumption of milk and other things. Let’s think alternatives. Ask yourself do you really need this?

         1. Cheese is made by adding rennet which is a complex of enzymes (enzymes is the proper word, not acid as I wrote above). Rennet is obtained from the inner lining of a baby cow used for veal production. Veal is meat from baby cow. So Indian vegetarians think twice before eating pizza, pasta, or anything with cheese.

3. Very informative…..
   Big inspiration for beginners like me…
   I am ready to conserve bulls to stop AI and there by save our Native breeds quality, there by save our MOTHER EARTH for coming generations.

   let us fit to cancel the 1961 Act.

4. Yes, as Vimal Nair asks what do we do now is the question that arises in my mind too. The situation is same for the entire country, not just Kerala. All the more reason, we need to seriously find some answers . . . quickly.

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