Abstract
AbstractTurning the focus again to cow care, this chapter’s aim is to imagine a positive future for cows whereby principles outlined in Chapter 10.1007/978-3-030-28408-4_4 are applied, at least initially, in anticipatory communities. The author examines two existing such communities, one in India and one in central Europe, both affiliated with Swami Prabhupada’s institution (introduced in Chapter 10.1007/978-3-030-28408-4_2). Also two problematic cases and one satisfactory case of individual cow deaths are considered, in the context of “futures” for cows. A third register of future-thinking is activism in the public sphere, here analyzed in terms of the Indic thought system of Sankhya, concluding with a sixfold series of “affirmations on the dharma of cow care” to illustrate what a “luminous” (sattva-guna) future for cows could look like.
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