The BKs *could* have peacocks in their big gardens ...
but then they would be embarrassed because followers would see that they *really* don't make babies through their tears!!! ... besides which, they are hellishly noisy.
They could even save a few lives and give sanctuary to a few old cows and goats, and let them live the end of their lives in peace up at places like Peace Village and Global Retreat.
It would even save them cutting the grass ... but I guess they would not like the "impure" poop. Actually, cow poop is good for the garden too.
This is straying off the topic of Brahma Kumaris attitudes towards animals but it is connected ... most milk in India contaminated or diluted.Almost 70% of 1,791 samples taken nationwide were contaminated or watered down, according to the report. Out of 33 Indian states, adulterants were found in all the milk samples from West Bengal, Orissa and Jharkhand.
Most samples were either diluted or adulterated with products including fertilizer, bleach, detergent, skimmed milk powder and glucose, or more shockingly hydrogen peroxide (bleach) and urea. Even the water used poses health risks.
Not so long ago, dairy products in India were very expensive precisely because the farmers had to adopt to natural cycles and production levels, hence ...
beyond the religious aspect or even its 'treat' value ... it was connected to mental images of wealth and power. When Indians came to the West they over dosed on the cheap, Post-War Industrially produced milk without thinking or asking *how* it was produced to cheaply and applying philosophy to it ... asking whether this production was still sattvic or not.
Embarrassingly for the Krishna, Vishnu and Lekhraj Kirpalani worshippers ... "milk equals murder" and suffering for their "holy cows".
But the BKs don't care. They will never say no to it because "Dadi says it is OK" ... end of discussion, no disagreement allowed, anyone disagree will be blamed for cause conflict, not the Dadis for not changing with the times. Besides which, too many BKs would leave if they did! (It's said that is why they allowed tea and coffee too which are plainly not sattvic). It's nothing spiritual at all ... they just have to make compromises to keep the donations coming in.
Animals cost, don't donate, disturb meditation and don't do service so what's the value of them? Any worldly pleasure they might give is Maya.
"It's the End of the World, every living thing has to suffer", they say. Great justification.