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milk without veal
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: racecar-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
09 Nov 2004 12:35 PST
Expires: 09 Dec 2004 12:35 PST Question ID: 426765 |
I would like to know if it is possible to buy milk without supporting the inhumane treatment of calves. Horizon Organic touts its 'happy cows' but all I could find on their website about what happens to their male calves is that they're 'sold to be raised as beef'. Not sure if that means veal, and if so, it's not clear how the veal is raised. Are there dairies in the US that do not sell the male calves born to their milk cows to be raised as veal? Or, are there dairies that sell calves exclusively to veal farmers who do not raise the calves in tiny stalls? |
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Re: milk without veal
From: pinkfreud-ga on 09 Nov 2004 13:04 PST |
The dairy section of my favorite health-food store carries a product labeled as "cruelty-free milk." You might want to look for milk that bears such a label. |
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Re: milk without veal
From: timespacette-ga on 09 Nov 2004 18:24 PST |
that's a good question. personally, for a long time I pursued this line of reasoning, then came to the conclusion one day that while keeping an animal in a cruelty-free environment is a vast improvement over the widely practiced alternative, killing them in the end is still cruel. I know this is just opinion; I hope an answer to your specific question will be forthcoming; I've tried to find it myself but finally filed it into the mind-folder called 'Best Kept Secrets'. I like this site: http://www.theanimalspirit.com/vegan.html |
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Re: milk without veal
From: neilzero-ga on 09 Nov 2004 18:38 PST |
Few Americans eat veal, even baby beef is rare, but it may be an important export. Typically the milk farmer is not concerned what the buyer does with the male calves. It would be rare that the milk farmer kept the male calves more than a few weeks, but they might be raised by a subsidiary, which would allow the disposal to be known with reasonable certainty. At what age is a male calf considered too old to produce veal? Neil |
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Re: milk without veal
From: timespacette-ga on 09 Nov 2004 19:54 PST |
Here's one for you: http://www.organicpastures.com/ Located in Fresno, Ca, owner Mark McAfee sez: "We do not sell our calves to the veal market. I am morally against it and my wife would object, she loves babies.... Our bull calves are sold to be raised organicallly on pasture and used for beef when they are huge (about 2 years old or 1600 pounds)." They also haul their milking machines out to the pasture; see website. Interesting concept. |
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