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Article: Is Britain the right place to be centre of kinder veal production?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 26, 1995
- Author:
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Only a swine would eat veal. This notion is now so widely
accepted that we have the mad situation in which the average French
person - obvious swines, of course - eat 50 times as much veal as
the average British person.
What is worse is that the English production of veal is a tenth
of what it was 10 years ago. This is sad because ours is the only
country where veal is required by law to be produced quite, or even
very, humanely. We have a situation in which, on the continent, a
huge number of calves become part of a production system that we
would regard as morally indefensible, whilst here there is a minute
and struggling "welfare" veal industry supplying a market which is
pitifully ...