Sivarama Swami pressed on with his interminable list of excuses for exploiting cows for what he wrongly calls “ahimsa milk.” In this essay I will address those. “Bulls are like our fathers.”  What can be said in response to this fatuousness other than that we don’t usually press our fathers into slavery by forcing them…

This essay is a continuation of Part 8 in which I responded to statements by Sivarama Swami attempting to defend animal exploitation for so-called “ahimsa milk” that can be summarised as: Cows are like mothers and children. Let’s be clear that the characterisation by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) of all women as…

In this essay, I want to examine the validity of statements made by Sivarama Swami, a guru in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), intended as additional justification for the exploitation of cows for what he falsely calls “ahimsa milk.” These statements can be summarised as: Cows are like children and mothers. Having conflated…

“Symbiosis” is nothing more than an empty buzzword and piece of speciesist propaganda that belies the reality of animal use, no matter how the animals are treated.

In reality, it’s as impossible to exploit cows harmlessly as it is to hold up Govardhana Hill with one finger.

In my previous essay, I pointed out that Sivarama Swami’s identifying himself as a “celibate monk” is irrelevant to his exploitation of animals for the falsely named “ahimsa milk.” Just as irrelevant is his claim that “tradition” justifies animal exploitation. He maintains that he is “from a 5,000 year old Krishna tradition…” and that this…