{"id":8269,"date":"2010-11-08T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8269"},"modified":"2011-03-28T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:56:27","slug":"holy-cows-to-produce-britains-most-expensive-milks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/holy-cows-to-produce-britains-most-expensive-milks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Holy Cows&#8217; to Produce Britain&#8217;s Most Expensive Milks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The most expensive milk in Britain, produced by cows living at a Hare Krishna farm set up by Beatle George Harrison, is to go on sale for the first time. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ahimsa Milk, meaning milk produced without harm to any living being, is from cows that are played music and massaged as they are milked by hand.<\/p>\n<p>The pasteurised milk will be sold for \u00a33 a litre in shops around Harrow, London, where there is a large Hindu community.<\/p>\n<p>However monks are already in talks with Asda and Sainsbury\u2019s about making the milk available across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Bhaktivedanta Manor was gifted to the Hare Krishnas in 1973 and has recently spent \u00a32.5 million to set up the \u201cHilton of farms\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sita Rama das, Director of the Lotus Trust that runs the farm, said even organic or free range dairy products are from farms where animals are mistreated and eventually slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>Ahimsa milk will be the first produce available for Hindus, whose religious beliefs mean they cannot harm any living animal. Also \u2018lacto-vegans\u2019, who eat dairy but only from animal treated in a human manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis premium milk will offer consumers the chance to avoid buying from an industry which is based around slaughter and suffering, and instead buy from a fresh, new and compassionate alternative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The dairy has 44 dairy Short Horns and Meuse-Rhine-Yssel cows producing 1,000 litres of milk every week, although they hope to expand as demand is already outstripping supply.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of slaughtering bull calves, the animals live a \u201cfull and happy live\u201d drawing the plough across fields or the mill to grind corn.<\/p>\n<p>Cows are milked twice a day in a shed where ancient sanskrit prayers are played over a loud speaker, unless they are suckling calves. Massages are given to calm any skittish heifers.<\/p>\n<p>All the animals are given herbal medicine in a special animal hospital when they are ill and a full Hindu burial when they die of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>The new farms will be officially opened by 30 saffron-clad priests and Dominic Grieve, the attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Dairy farmers welcomed the initiative but argued that ordinary farms already have a high standard of welfare.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/8112772\/Holy-cows-to-produce-Britains-most-expensive-milks.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 telegraph.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most expensive milk in Britain, produced by cows living at a Hare Krishna farm set up by Beatle George Harrison, is to go on sale for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights-vegetarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}