“Available only because her own child was denied it.” I don’t think they care tbh. Unless there’s a psychological effect on the calf here I’m failing to understand why I should care.
Half the calves (the males, the ones who will never produce milk) get murdered for veal nearly immediately.
The other half (the females, who will likely produce milk someday) live in tiny pens, so small they can barely turn around, and they, of course, are forced to shit and piss in this tiny area and never leave it. These baby cows are fed the worst fucking shit-ass formula that smells absolutely foul, worse than you can believe. I have experience with this stage in the dairy process because when I was a child, I often helped my neighbor/friend with her chores, which consisted mainly of feeding these poor cows. It’s not a fate I would wish on any creature. I think maybe the baby cows murdered for veal have it better.
As for the mothers, yes, of course they care that their children are being taken away from them! They’re mammals, and, broadly speaking, mammalian mothers nurture their young. If you don’t believe me, you have only to search YouTube and you’ll find dozens of videos of mother cows chasing after people stealing their children. There are so many. I’m not going to look any up for you for the simple reason that I don’t want to cry tonight.
Dairy is, in my opinion, worse than flesh. The veal industry wouldn’t exist without the dairy industry. Every dairy cow is murdered at the end of her life, just as every meat cow is. But the dairy cows live through four or five years of daily torture before they are murdered, whereas the meat cows are only alive for a little over a year.
Half the calves (the males, the ones who will never produce milk) get murdered for veal nearly immediately.
The other half (the females, who will likely produce milk someday) live in tiny pens, so small they can barely turn around, and they, of course, are forced to shit and piss in this tiny area and never leave it. These baby cows are fed the worst fucking shit-ass formula that smells absolutely foul, worse than you can believe. I have experience with this stage in the dairy process because when I was a child, I often helped my neighbor/friend with her chores, which consisted mainly of feeding these poor cows. It’s not a fate I would wish on any creature. I think maybe the baby cows murdered for veal have it better.
As for the mothers, yes, of course they care that their children are being taken away from them! They’re mammals, and, broadly speaking, mammalian mothers nurture their young. If you don’t believe me, you have only to search YouTube and you’ll find dozens of videos of mother cows chasing after people stealing their children. There are so many. I’m not going to look any up for you for the simple reason that I don’t want to cry tonight.
Dairy is, in my opinion, worse than flesh. The veal industry wouldn’t exist without the dairy industry. Every dairy cow is murdered at the end of her life, just as every meat cow is. But the dairy cows live through four or five years of daily torture before they are murdered, whereas the meat cows are only alive for a little over a year.