ABSTRACT
Agriculture becomes the province of the corporate sector, rather than an integral, cultural aspect of living. This is occurring worldwide - both in extensive agriculture, as in the Australian wool industry, where sheep are left in paddocks largely to fend for themselves, and in the intensive industries, where animals are held indoors in confined conditions, with very limited human contact. The agri-’culture’ is inseparable from the other events of life and inseparable from an understanding of a human’s relationship to the animals and nature. India needs the support of the international community to avoid this and so that small-scale, human and animal-centred agriculture can survive. In Australia, the ‘giant’ approach to agriculture followed the trends of other Western nations. The ‘gentle’ approach to agriculture not only benefits humans and animals, but is also economically important to India. To maintain and improve small-scale, ecological, ethical agriculture in India also requires many reforms.
