Veal: A cruel meal

“The veal calf industry is one of the most reprehensible of all the kinds of intensive animal agriculture.


Male calves used for veal are taken from their mothers one or two days after birth. They are chained inside tiny crates barely larger than their bodies and are usually kept in darkness, except to be fed two or three times a day for 20 minutes.

During their brief lives, they never see the sun or touch the earth. They never see or taste the grass. Their anemic bodies crave proper sustenance. Their muscles ache for freedom and exercise. They long for maternal care. About 14 weeks after their birth, they are slaughtered.

The veal calf’s permanent home is a veal crate, a wooden restraining device that is so small (22 inches by 54 inches) that the calves cannot turn around. Designed to prevent movement (exercise), the crate does its job of atrophying the calves’ muscles, thus producing tender “gourmet” veal. The calves often suffer from open sores caused by the constant rubbing against the crates.

In 1996, the European Union voted to ban the veal crate across Europe; it will be phased out over 10 years. By 2007, this cruel contraption will be gone from Europe for good. Yet it is still perfectly legal in the United States.

The calves are generally fed a milk substitute intentionally lacking in iron and other essential nutrients. This diet keeps the animals anemic and creates the pale pink or white color considered desirable in veal. Craving iron, the calves lick urine-saturated slats and any metallic parts of their stalls. Farmers also withhold water from the animals, who, always thirsty, are driven to drink a large quantity of the high-fat liquid feed.

Because of such extremely unhealthy living conditions and restricted diets, calves are susceptible to a long list of diseases, including chronic pneumonia and “scours,” or constant diarrhea. Consequently, they must be given massive doses of antibiotics and other drugs just to keep them alive. The antibiotics are passed on to consumers in the meat—and that’s not all that’s passed along.

Federal agents have found more than a dozen veal production companies giving calves clenbuterol, a dangerous and illegal drug that speeds growth and increases anemia in the calves, producing more expensive white meat.(1) Calves treated with clenbuterol can be sold for slaughter at 12 to 13 weeks, rather than the standard 16 weeks. Even trace amounts of clenbuterol can cause severe illness in humans, including increased heart rate, tremors, breathing difficulties, fever—even death.”

“For over a decade, I refused to eat veal and have refused to buy it for the family because of this.”

“Having a degree in Agricultural Economics, I can say that there is a lot to be desired on any feedlot when it comes to animal treatment.

However, I am not particularly fond of veal.”

“i didn't know you went to auburn chili!”

“Punkin, if you ever had the veal marsala at Tommy's in San Diego you'd be a HUGE fan...”

“I love veal .. . grilled veal chops rock!”

“I love the taste of veal...it taste like lost hope and dispair...mmm yummy
(jk, i think it taste like crap)

vegetarians claim to not eat food that has a face....neither do we...we chop the head clean off!!”

“I almost went there, MO.

Decided to go north instead.”

“sheesh! what a stereotypical bunch of crap you unload. LMAO.”

“Ever have shrimp with the "face" still there?”

“Nah, but I've had crawdads...suck the head and eat the tail...hooooweeeeee!!!”

“lobster's face is still there..

i hate veal.”

“eaten many trout, snapper etc with the "face" still there.


I had a co-worker who used to accuse me of gravitating to the food most cruely raised, or cutest etc.

At client lunches and dinners I tend to order Foie Gras, quail, rabbit, duck, lamb, veal etc.


I was born to eat the flesh of other living things.

Yum.”

“...lovely...white...flesh...”

“My wife has banned me from ordering the trout at the local German restaurant.

She dislikes being stared at during her meal...”

“Tell her to put clothes on...”

“Hmmmmmmmmm.

I wonder what the ASPCA would say if people tossed calves into boiling water like they do lobsters?


"Hey, Lou! We're gonna need a bigger pot!"”

“And a tighter-fitting lid!”

“GOD VEAL IS SOOOO GOOD!

But I won't eat it anymore... although out here in cubicle land, we are being raised much like veal”

“You're identifying with the veal, eh?

Not good.... LOL


They haven't 'strapped you in', have they?”

“Does anybody else remember the "Larry the Lobster" thing on Saturday Night Live?”

“No, but I remember 'The Great Flabod'...”

“It's almost lunchtime here.”

“...in the Land of Gortch...”

“"That'll be two chickens"”

“heh heh...”

“They boiled poor Larry, didn't they?”

“...flush...”

“My parents didn't monitor my TV time very closely after I was 12 or so.

I remember the first season of SNL quite well...”

“Jim Henson was SUCH a creative soul...”

“You can mark me down as a "NON-Veal" eating human.....”

“I love veal .. . grilled veal chops rock!"
lee

I had some for dinner last night.”

“Tilt, it wasn't just that they did it, it was the reason they did it.

Eddie Murphy was running the whole thing. They had 1-900 callin numbers for people to call in and vote whether or not to save Larry.

On the show where they were supposed to announce whether or not Larry was cooked, Eddie Murphy comes on, with Larry in his hand and a big pot of boiling water and said something like this:

"Well, y'all actually voted to save Larry, but we got a lot of letters that said 'I didn't realize that n****** ate lobster' so the hell with it, I'm cooking the m*****f*****!"

...and he tossed Larry in the pot of boiling water, on live national TV.”