Article: Veal without the cruelty.

Byline: JOANNA BLYTHMAN

In our new age of humane husbandry, is it okay to eat veal?

MANY British people see veal as an intrinsically cruel meat and shun it automatically, wrongly believing that it can never be humanely reared. But just like pork, beef, lamb or chicken, there is bad veal and good veal.

Veal owes its negative image to the notorious system where calves are taken away from their mothers at birth and kept indoors in a small crate without any bedding, unable even to turn around.

Fed only powdered milk made up with water, this makes them anaemic but it produces that tender, white, tasteless meat that was once highly prized ...

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