Hungarian cows have a Babel fish in their ears – Posted in: Uncategorized

The Ahimsa team has just been on a fact-finding trip to Hungary where we were investigating slaughter-free dairy farming at a Hare Krishna farm two hours from Budapest. Hungarian agriculture suffered very badly under Soviet Communism and peasant farmers were persecuted relentlessly. Land was confiscated and they were forced to hand over ever-increasing amounts of produce to the state. Therefore it was inspiring to see a 600-acre farm flourishing in the countryside today. Their cows…

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Progress at the Ahimsa farm – Posted in: Uncategorized

The herd have been watching us as we have been very busy building new fences and putting up barns and shelters with the funds raised from our appeal last year. It was really heart-warming that so many people loved our project and chipped in to help us bring about a revolution in dairy farming. We have been a bit slow, but everyone’s perks will be going out over the next…

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Expert ox-driver from Hungary joins the Ahimsa herd – Posted in: Uncategorized

The Ahimsa Dairy is delighted to welcome our new farm manager Govindananda Das, a European expert in working with bulls Govinda, aged 39, worked on a large ox-working farm in Hungary for 15 years where he trained countless long-horned Hungarian Grey and Tirolean bulls to do agricultural jobs. He is also experienced in hand-milking, and will be using his skills on the Ahimsa cows as we move from using machinery to traditional methods. Govinda will…

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A Revolutionary Dairy for the Future – the Ahimsa Vision – Posted in: Uncategorized

The Ahimsa dairy is Britain’s first slaughter-free dairy where no cow or bull calf is ever killed We have been working with Commonwork, a large organic farm in Kent for three years and they have bred all of our cattle We are very grateful to have been associated with them during this time but we now want to move even closer to our revolutionary vision for dairy farming in Britain Our unique system of dairy…