Cycle for Cruelty Free Milk

Millions of factory farmed cows in the UK are suffering to produce
conventional milk for our consumption. The Lotus Trust needs to raise
£150,000 to develop a model cruelty free milk dairy which can be
replicated around the country. With your help we can make cruelty free
milk a reality.

Join the Ahimsa campaigners to raise money by cycling for cruelty free milk, on any Sunday in October in London. There are different cycle routes for different levels and all we ask of you is to raise a minimum of £150 in sponsorship money to help make cruelty free milk a reality. It's that simple!

Please fill in your name, email, telephone and select the events you are
able to attend on the different dates. For more information, please visit
this link:

http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/skyride/local/events

To take part, click here:

Don't worry if you don't live in London - you can also arrange something similar for your area!

Cruelty-free milk: awareness leads to action!

Ahimsa recently exhibited at a summer festival in Hertfordshire as part of
its ongoing awareness-raising campaign on the benefits of a cruelty-free
lifestyle. The survey it conducted among festival-goers proves that where
people are given the facts about milk and meat production, they are more
likely to commit to a compassionate diet.

Research carried out at Bhaktivedanta Manor, the Krishna community farm in
Herfordshire which produces more then 37,000litres of cruelty free milk
annually for its community indicates that the real price of milk (when no
animals are slaughtered) is £3.

Out of 2,000 people surveyed at the festival:

- 31.6% were willing to pay £3 for 1 litre of cruelty free milk.
- 37.1% were willing to pay £2 for 1 litre of cruelty free milk.

This makes a total of 68.7% who are willing to pay £2 or more for 1 litre of
cruelty free milk.

In addition, 1,000 people who came through the Ahimsa exhibition area made a
commitment to take up a Compassionate Eating Programme whereby they will
now:

a) only drink organic milk
b) convert to a vegetarian friendly diet

And among those who pledged to change their personal dietary habits,
approximately 450 have committed themselves to take further action by
joining the Make Cruelty Free Milk A Reality campaign and participating in
various fund- and awareness-raising events.

If you haven't made a similar commitment already, there is no time better
than now! More to come soon on our plan for October.

Belgian farmers cry over spilt milk

How shocking, though one may empathise with farmers who receive a pittance for milk produced – they have been straight jacketed into an industrialised system leaving them no room to manoeuvre. The true value of milk and the cows that produce it has been totally lost, it costs less to buy a litre of milk then it does water. However, also as shocking is that 300 million litres of fresh milk is poured onto empty fields, this also appears to be senseless.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8259659.stm