From an email I received:
Ranchor Prabhu (ACBSP) has written and published a new book.
The following articles do not give proper weight to the importance of the book or say much about it.
The 134-page book contains an additional 32 pages of professional color photographs of the cows and devotees at Bhaktivedanta Manor and b-&-w photos, original drawings by Ranchor, and graphs and tables.
Patrick Holden, Director of the Soil Association, wrote the Foreword.
Chrissie Hynde backs dairy project
See a photo of Chrissie Hynde posing with oxen here.
The Pretenders singer has written the preface to Ranchor Prime’s book, called Cows And The Earth – A Story Of Kinder Dairy Farming, which hits out at cows being used as “milk machines”.
Chrissie Hynde penned the preface to Ranchor Prime’s book Chrissie Hynde has given her backing to a book celebrating the rise of a “cruelty free” dairy farm, a real-life experiment set up after George Harrison donated a manor house and 20 acres to a community.
Chrissie – who has said the book tells the story “behind the ancient tradition of cow protection, and argues for its place in the 21st century environmental movement”, adding that “no ecological argument can be complete without it” – attended the launch at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
In 1973 Beatle Harrison donated a Hertfordshire manor house and 20 acres of land to a young community of Krishna people, who bought a cow. Nearly 40 years later, Bhaktivedanta Manor houses 50 cows and oxen in low-tech English oak farm buildings.
The farm is run according to Hindu principles and no animal has ever been killed there. The calves suckle from their mothers, cows are milked by hand and bulls plough the land and 35,000 litres of “cruelty free” milk are produced every year from the farm.
The book is being released in hardback and softcover on October 28.
Spiritual press Fitzrovia launches
28.10.09 Catherine Neilan
A new press, publishing spiritual books aimed at the Hindu community and mainstream readers, launched today (28th October).
Fitzrovia Press will publish both fiction and non-fiction, and launches with Cows And The Earth: A Story of Kinder Dairy Farming by press founder Ranchor Prime.
As part of the publicity around the new book, Prime held a press call with singer and animal rights activist Chrissie Hynde, bringing two oxen from Bhaktivedanta Manor – donated to a Hindu community by former Beatles George Harrison – into central London. Hynde, who has written a foreword for the book, discussed why milk is cheaper then water and called for an end to cruelty to cows.
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