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RushKing
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14 Nov 2018, 5:51 pm

According to Soil Association (The UK’s largest organic certification body)

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Dairy farmers are often faced with a dilemma about what to do with male calves, as they cannot be used for milk production. Some dairy breeds, such as British Friesians, can also produce meat, which means that they can be reared for beef production.

Unfortunately, killing male dairy cows is something that happens on both organic and non-organic dairy farms

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Male calves raised for veal are reared to 6 – 8 months of age.

https://www.soilassociation.org/organic ... anic-cows/



How about the EU?

No support for this claim on their website either.



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20 Nov 2018, 4:31 pm

Addressing the elephant in the room:

Is it really a kindness in prolonging the life of an animal which will inevitably be slaughtered in any case?
If desisting from an industry which is inherently cruel and exploitative is not an option, the only recourse is to rigidly adhere to an ethical and humane slaughtering process sooner rather than later, surely...



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29 Nov 2018, 8:09 pm