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Article: Veal: a heavy diet of hypocrisy If we want meat from humanely reared calves, we will have to learn to love the taste and the cost, says Emily Green We ship calves abroad to the crate, then congratulate ourselves on our humanity
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 13, 1995
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Since 1990, when the use of veal crates in the UK was banned,
Britain has led Europe in its concern for animal welfare. It has also
become European leader in hypocrisy.
Britain is the third-largest milk producing country in the EC; it
also has much the lowest veal consumption. The vast British dairy
industry produces, as an unwanted by-product, as many as 1.3 million
bull calves every year - which we are then too squeamish, or too
penny-pinching, to rear properly to our own fine standards. So we
ship them abroad, then congratulate ourselves on our delicate, humane
aversion to veal.
It is important to understand the basic facts of the dairy
industry to appreciate how we reached the state of ...