Love to eat veal? Read on.........
Do you enjoy eating VEAL? do you know what veal is?
It is the meat of a baby calf that has been starved to death so that the
meat is pale pink, almost white. It is served in most Five Star Hotels,
and can be bought at certain supermarkets . The VEAL calf industry is
among the worst of all kinds of intensive animal agriculture. It is
literally a fate far worse than death.
Male calfs are taken from their mothers one or two
days after birth. They are chained inside tiny crates barely larger
than their bodies and are kept in total darkness.
During their brief lives, they never see the sun or
touch the earth. They never see or taste grass. Their muscles
ache for freedom and exercise. They long for maternal care.....
About 14-16 weeks after their birth, they are slaughtered.
The Calfs 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 any movement, the
crate does its job of atrophying the calves' muscles,
THUS PRODUCING TENDER "GOURMET" VEAL.
Imagine if you had to sit in one position for months
without being able to move at all. The calves also suffer from open
sores caused by the constant rubbing against the crates. There is no
bedding on which they lie, simply hard wood. They will never walk
again. In fact, they will never stand again except when they go for
slaughter - and
by then they are so weak their limbs have become useless. These are
little babies who will never see even one year of life. Have never
romped and played, have never seen another calf or anyone- just a
big bottle of forcible feed mush which is shoved into their throat every
few
hours and injections that pierce their skin regularly to make them fatter
and
keep them alive. They cough all the time and their faeces comes out
in painful streams dirtying their nether parts.
The calves are fed a high fat liquid feed intentionally lacking in
iron and other essential nutrients. This diet keeps the animals anaemic
and creates the pale pink or white colour considered
desirable in VEAL.
Craving iron, the calves lick urine-saturated salts
and any metallic parts of their stalls. Farmers also withhold
water from the animals, who, always thirsty, are driven to drink the
disgusting slop the feed is.
Because of such extremely unhealthy living conditions
and food, the calves soon develop chronic pneumonia and constant
diarrhoea. Consequently, they are given massive doses
of antibiotics and oth er drugs just to keep them alive. The
antibiotics are passed onto the consumers in the meat.
That's not all that's passed along. Most international veal
production companies give calves 'clenbuterol' , a
dangerous and illegal drug that speeds growth and increases anaemia
in the calves, producing more expensive white meat. Calves
treated with 'clenbuterol' can be sold for slaughter at 12 to 13 weeks
of age, 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 and even death.
In 1996 the EU voted to ban the VEAL crate across
Europe, but the veal industry said they would suffer economically, so
it will be phased out and removed in the year 2007 only. Yet the trade
will continue to thrive in various other countries.
People who eat veal basically are eating the pale and tender meat of
a very sick baby cow who was tortured to death. They
are also eating antibiotics and hormones that kept the baby
alive long after its body had given up. The meat is so white because there
are NO nutrients in it.
It is senseless food eaten by the senseless and savoured for its colour
and chewability rather than any intrinsic merit. Surely , if a person
is paying soooo much money for the meal, he must want
something in exchange:Apart from drugs and cancer????
Don't buy veal, and tell friends, neighbours and relatives why.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AROUND.
It is the meat of a baby calf that has been starved to death so that the
meat is pale pink, almost white. It is served in most Five Star Hotels,
and can be bought at certain supermarkets . The VEAL calf industry is
among the worst of all kinds of intensive animal agriculture. It is
literally a fate far worse than death.
Male calfs are taken from their mothers one or two
days after birth. They are chained inside tiny crates barely larger
than their bodies and are kept in total darkness.
During their brief lives, they never see the sun or
touch the earth. They never see or taste grass. Their muscles
ache for freedom and exercise. They long for maternal care.....
About 14-16 weeks after their birth, they are slaughtered.
The Calfs 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 any movement, the
crate does its job of atrophying the calves' muscles,
THUS PRODUCING TENDER "GOURMET" VEAL.
Imagine if you had to sit in one position for months
without being able to move at all. The calves also suffer from open
sores caused by the constant rubbing against the crates. There is no
bedding on which they lie, simply hard wood. They will never walk
again. In fact, they will never stand again except when they go for
slaughter - and
by then they are so weak their limbs have become useless. These are
little babies who will never see even one year of life. Have never
romped and played, have never seen another calf or anyone- just a
big bottle of forcible feed mush which is shoved into their throat every
few
hours and injections that pierce their skin regularly to make them fatter
and
keep them alive. They cough all the time and their faeces comes out
in painful streams dirtying their nether parts.
The calves are fed a high fat liquid feed intentionally lacking in
iron and other essential nutrients. This diet keeps the animals anaemic
and creates the pale pink or white colour considered
desirable in VEAL.
Craving iron, the calves lick urine-saturated salts
and any metallic parts of their stalls. Farmers also withhold
water from the animals, who, always thirsty, are driven to drink the
disgusting slop the feed is.
Because of such extremely unhealthy living conditions
and food, the calves soon develop chronic pneumonia and constant
diarrhoea. Consequently, they are given massive doses
of antibiotics and oth er drugs just to keep them alive. The
antibiotics are passed onto the consumers in the meat.
That's not all that's passed along. Most international veal
production companies give calves 'clenbuterol' , a
dangerous and illegal drug that speeds growth and increases anaemia
in the calves, producing more expensive white meat. Calves
treated with 'clenbuterol' can be sold for slaughter at 12 to 13 weeks
of age, 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 and even death.
In 1996 the EU voted to ban the VEAL crate across
Europe, but the veal industry said they would suffer economically, so
it will be phased out and removed in the year 2007 only. Yet the trade
will continue to thrive in various other countries.
People who eat veal basically are eating the pale and tender meat of
a very sick baby cow who was tortured to death. They
are also eating antibiotics and hormones that kept the baby
alive long after its body had given up. The meat is so white because there
are NO nutrients in it.
It is senseless food eaten by the senseless and savoured for its colour
and chewability rather than any intrinsic merit. Surely , if a person
is paying soooo much money for the meal, he must want
something in exchange:Apart from drugs and cancer????
Don't buy veal, and tell friends, neighbours and relatives why.
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AROUND.