Veal
Veal calf, a product of the dairy industry.
Born into pain, suffering, isolation and death.
You are looking at a newborn baby whose mother was not even allowed to clean him off before he was torn away from her.
They can't use him for dairy, so he will end up isolated in a tiny dark crate, unable to move (to make his flesh tender), for four to six months, living in his own excrement, being fed a low-iron formula (to keep his flesh white) and then slaughtered.
This will not stop until people stop demanding cheese, ice cream, and yogurt from bovine milk. For every glass of milk you consume, a calf is chained in a filthy crate somewhere, lowing for his mother, sentenced to become veal.
Who drinks a calf's milk knowing that?
They can't use him for dairy, so he will end up isolated in a tiny dark crate, unable to move (to make his flesh tender), for four to six months, living in his own excrement, being fed a low-iron formula (to keep his flesh white) and then slaughtered.
This will not stop until people stop demanding cheese, ice cream, and yogurt from bovine milk. For every glass of milk you consume, a calf is chained in a filthy crate somewhere, lowing for his mother, sentenced to become veal.
Who drinks a calf's milk knowing that?
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Few consumers realize that veal is a direct by-product of the dairy industry. Dairy cows must be impregnated in order to produce milk.
While female calves are slaughtered or added to the dairy herd, male calves are taken from their mothers when they are as young as one day old and chained in tiny stalls to be raised for veal. The confinement is so extreme that they cannot even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are chained by the neck to restrict all movement, which makes it impossible for them to turn around, stretch, or even lie down comfortably. This severe confinement makes the calves’ meat “tender” because their muscles cannot develop.
Published scientific research indicates that calves confined in crates experience chronic stress and require approximately five times more medication than calves living in more spacious conditions. It is not surprising then that veal is among the most likely meats to contain illegal drug residues that pose a threat to human health.
Researchers have also reported that calves confined in crates exhibit abnormal coping behaviors associated with frustration. These include head tossing, head shaking, kicking, scratching, and stereotypical chewing behavior. Confined calves also experience leg and joint disorders and an impaired ability to walk.
While female calves are slaughtered or added to the dairy herd, male calves are taken from their mothers when they are as young as one day old and chained in tiny stalls to be raised for veal. The confinement is so extreme that they cannot even turn around or lie down comfortably. They are chained by the neck to restrict all movement, which makes it impossible for them to turn around, stretch, or even lie down comfortably. This severe confinement makes the calves’ meat “tender” because their muscles cannot develop.
Published scientific research indicates that calves confined in crates experience chronic stress and require approximately five times more medication than calves living in more spacious conditions. It is not surprising then that veal is among the most likely meats to contain illegal drug residues that pose a threat to human health.
Researchers have also reported that calves confined in crates exhibit abnormal coping behaviors associated with frustration. These include head tossing, head shaking, kicking, scratching, and stereotypical chewing behavior. Confined calves also experience leg and joint disorders and an impaired ability to walk.
In addition to restricting the animals’ movement, veal producers severely limit what their animals eat. The calves are fed an all-liquid milk substitute that is purposely deficient in iron and fiber. It is intended to produce borderline anemia and the pale-colored flesh fancied by “gourmets.” At approximately 16 weeks of age, these weak animals are slaughtered and marketed as “white” veal - also known as “fancy,” “milk-fed,” “special-fed,” and “formula-fed” veal.
Besides the expensive veal that comes from calves who are kept in small wooden crates, “bob” veal is the flesh of calves who may be slaughtered at just a few hours or days old. While these calves are spared intensive confinement, they are still subjected to inhumane transport, handling, and slaughter, and many die before reaching the slaughterhouse.
THE SHORT LIFE OF A CALF - Poster by Karrel Christopher
Using hidden cameras, this investigation into the fate of unwanted dairy calves (bobby calves) in Australia reveals what the dairy industry doesn't want you to see
Young calves pushed, shocked with electric prods, hit and dragged up a metal ramp to be slaughtered... Some, too weak to stand, are thrown into the slaughter chute. This shocking footage, provided to Animals Australia, was taken at an abattoir in Northern Victoria.
Upon receiving the footage, Animals Australia lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) for breaches of Victorian animal cruelty laws and the illegal use of an electric prod on a calf. A formal complaint was also lodged with PrimeSafe forbreaches of the Australian Standardsgoverning welfare at abattoirs; PrimeSafe ordered the practices cease immediately. Investigations have now concluded — incredibly, no charges have been laid. Instead, the abattoir owners and several workers were issued with formal warnings by DPI.
This exposure of abattoir cruelty, the latest in a string over the past 15 months, further demonstrates the urgent need for constant monitoring by Government veterinary officers and CCTV in all abattoirs.
These young, vulnerable animals suffered not only because of illegal cruelty — but, crucially, because they were not wanted by the commercial dairy industry. Hundreds of thousands of Australian bobby calves are slaughtered each year as 'waste products' of the dairy industry. The terrible treatment at this abattoir is not the first, nor will it be the last time that calves will be thrown, dragged and abused. Their inability as babies to comprehend what is required of them, whether during loading for transport or up the races of slaughterhouses, requires them to be treated with compassion and patience — two human traits rarely witnessed when it comes to dealing with unwanted and 'worthless' animals.
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This exposure of abattoir cruelty, the latest in a string over the past 15 months, further demonstrates the urgent need for constant monitoring by Government veterinary officers and CCTV in all abattoirs.
These young, vulnerable animals suffered not only because of illegal cruelty — but, crucially, because they were not wanted by the commercial dairy industry. Hundreds of thousands of Australian bobby calves are slaughtered each year as 'waste products' of the dairy industry. The terrible treatment at this abattoir is not the first, nor will it be the last time that calves will be thrown, dragged and abused. Their inability as babies to comprehend what is required of them, whether during loading for transport or up the races of slaughterhouses, requires them to be treated with compassion and patience — two human traits rarely witnessed when it comes to dealing with unwanted and 'worthless' animals.
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