Veal Calf Abuse Caught On Video
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This is part of the meat and dairy industry. These are the babies of dairy cows:
From Wayne Pacelle’s blog:
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture shut down the plant after seeing The HSUS’s footage and announced the initiation of a thorough investigation.
“The deplorable scenes recorded in the video released by the Humane Society of the United States are unequivocally unacceptable,” said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a statement today. “The callous behavior and attitudes displayed in the video clearly appear to be violations of USDA’s humane handling regulations.”
Roger Allbee, the head of Vermont’s agriculture department, offered a similar denunciation.
After reviewing the undercover footage obtained by the HSUS investigator in August and September 2009, animal scientists Dr. Temple Grandin and Kurt Vogel pronounced that, “the handling practices and attention to insensibility at this plant are unacceptable and must improve.”
The HSUS posted some facts:
* When dairy cows give birth to male calves, the calves are often sold to veal factory farms where they are unable to turn around or stretch their limbs, or they are slaughtered for “bob veal” within a week of being born.
* Arizona, California, Colorado, Maine and Michigan have passed laws phasing out the use of restrictive veal crate confinement systems, but still allow transport and slaughter of calves at any age.
* The agriculture industry trade publication Feedstuffs editorialized in September about a series of investigations conducted by animal organizations: “It’s important to understand that companies and producers can’t just say ‘bad apple’ and move on because—to consumers who have seen these videos again and again—there are no bad apples anymore. The bad apple, to consumers now, is the industry.”
* Approximate 700,000 veal calves are slaughtered in the US annually, approximately 15% of whom are bob veal calves.
You can stop this! Go vegan!
Please please put an end to this inhumane treatment of these calves……….I am a vegan, but haven’t always been, I can understand the market for veal, but NOT the treatment of helpless animals like these …….the men must feel real big and brave to handle these vicious babies
What is wrong with these people? These calves are BABIES, for crying out loud. They only live for a WEEK–seven days–and the seven days that they have are absolutely awful. I understand that not everyone in the world can be a vegan, but there is no need for cruelty like this. NONE. GoVeg!
I think the reason that animals are treated like this is because meat has become a sterile and easily obtainable product for the people who are eating what is created in these factory farms-most people don’t know and don’t care where their food comes from. These people who make their living killing living beings are harmed mentally, and I think it poisons our whole culture. If everyone who eats meat had to participate in the killing, skinning, and processing there would be a lot more respect. If you eat meat, you should be the one who has killed to have it, that’s the only ethical solution. It’s way to easy to buy chicken nuggets at McDonalds or the nice pretty package of steak at the grocery store. The slaughter and processing of a living animal isn’t pretty-it smells, feels, sounds, and looks like a nightmare.
ummm there male babies cows first of all and also stop pretending likes it’s a bad thing. . . . i know most of y’all loves meat so shut up and eat your burger from McDonald. -_-