The Animals, Our Loving Friends * Tamera Vision

You didn't know that we are such unforgiving and cruel lords, are you?

In Tamera the animals are not raised as food, neither as domestic animals. Food is an important subject in Tamera, just like anywhere in the World. And it's not only about vegetarian or raw food, even though this may also be a research subject. Some of them are vegetarians, and some of them are testing for a few months the raw food variant. Raw Food means fresh vegetables, seeds, kernels without being prepared by a thermal process through boiling or frying, baking, etc...

Here they do not use milk, cheese, or eggs. Only butter has recently became the subject to experimenting, being produced from the milk of the few cows kept as an existent element integrated in the natural area. Some chicken and goats will be introduced soon, but they will have to make own choices for how "domestically" they would like to remain, they will live at the borders of the forest inside enclosures with open gates.

Livestock is attentively planned... how many of a certain species should we have, what to use them for, how much land should they occupy, what shall we do with the cows or the other animals when they will grow old and naturally die? Most likely they will become food for the wild animals, their corpses will be left in the forest, and so everything will come back to nature. In Tamera there are no animals used for hard work, the existent ones are free to do whatever they please... If what they are pleased to do it also proves to be useful for the humans, then everything turns ethical and a co operation may come out of this. For example pigs are left free on large areas, they are not fed for meat or sacrificed, but they are left to do what they love best: to grout the land! So pigs are carried away on lands to be prepared for reforestation, for freshening, where they are extremely happy to dig for over half a meter deep! And so everybody wins, the people are starting with a perfectly worked ground, free from struggle, with no need of cars, therefore without air contamination. They have even been coached to protect young trees and to recognize what should be drawn off. And there is only one generation coached, the second one is now catching up, it seems!

Horses are not used for carrying, not for carriages, not for riding, but for psychologist therapy of human being, by interacting with them. People learn to have trust, patience, to be single-minded and to lead, not to hesitate, to clearly impart... they are still investigating what horses like to do, besides this.

Not even the Mayans were using horses for carrying or for riding. A Mayan used to carry for himself everything he needed from another place, it didn’t seem fair for them to work an animal off, as nowadays it seems so normal for us, or even to grow them up for sacrificing them.

Each animal's sufferings is imprinted on the meat that we consume... the sufferings during life, when we raise them in tiny spaces, artificial, remains along with the frightening experience of mass execution.

Besides the well known nutrients, our food it also holds information. If we’d only be a little more sensitive, we would be terrified, I think.

Dogs are living in a special area, on 5 hectares, are left free to develop their skills and preferences, to organize themselves, but probably watching & protecting is what they like most. But in Tamera there are no houses to be guarded, all doors are left open around here, and yet nothing is stolen, the community means trust. Not even the cultures must be guarded. There are no sheep yet, the key to communicate to this species is still to be found, communication is still in study.

The vet specialist, Tina, is telling us with tears in her eyes about the sufferings of the animals, the fear that they are living day by day, since they are born inside those industrial farms, because animals communicate and know what is expected from them. ...About the abusive way we are treating horses, putting them to run to exhaust and forcing them to learn artificial steps, for show’s sake.

She is telling us stories about the communication process between humans and dogs. ...dogs that people succeeded in understanding, helping dogs, leading people to the most appropriate places, or for example leading wild animals cured in Tamera to be readmitted in their own environment. There are also well documented cases of dogs communicating in their own way to the human beings whether a decision is good to make, or not.

There are so many significations of communication, of layouts and society’s roles, assumed and inspired from animal communities. The presence or the absence of rats has been related to humans’ attitude toward them, it was detected a certain answer at people's intentions.

Harmony and curing the wounds, either animal or human, physical or emotional, in particular or collectively, is part of the recipe Tamera is applying to keep going further.