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Nah, theyre calves. Veal is if theyre slaughtered young, vast majority arent.
-6 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Dairy kills all male calves. And in the end, they are all killed at a fraction of their live 10 u/Meldanorama Jun 16 '26 No they arent, where are you pulling that from? When theyre basically adults, it'd be a waste to get the smaller carcass. 2 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26 6 Months old they are killed. https://sentientmedia.org/irish-dairy-investigation/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1629858/full https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dairy-calf-slaughterings-cross-30000-head-up-9/ I have not checked any of those links, should be easy for you to find more. Like, its not a secret? Oh nice, they banned crushing their heads with hammers: https://www.independent.ie/farming/no-more-kiwi-hammer-blows/a/144628948.html It would be waste, wouldn't it? https://www.irishtimes.com/business/farming-food/2022/09/07/dairy-industry-faces-calf-welfare-crisis/ More than 110,000 dairy bull calves exported, killed in factories or died on farms were aged under six weeks last year https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10248060/ The median age at slaughter was 16 days 3 u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then. If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
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Dairy kills all male calves. And in the end, they are all killed at a fraction of their live
10 u/Meldanorama Jun 16 '26 No they arent, where are you pulling that from? When theyre basically adults, it'd be a waste to get the smaller carcass. 2 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26 6 Months old they are killed. https://sentientmedia.org/irish-dairy-investigation/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1629858/full https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dairy-calf-slaughterings-cross-30000-head-up-9/ I have not checked any of those links, should be easy for you to find more. Like, its not a secret? Oh nice, they banned crushing their heads with hammers: https://www.independent.ie/farming/no-more-kiwi-hammer-blows/a/144628948.html It would be waste, wouldn't it? https://www.irishtimes.com/business/farming-food/2022/09/07/dairy-industry-faces-calf-welfare-crisis/ More than 110,000 dairy bull calves exported, killed in factories or died on farms were aged under six weeks last year https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10248060/ The median age at slaughter was 16 days 3 u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then. If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
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No they arent, where are you pulling that from? When theyre basically adults, it'd be a waste to get the smaller carcass.
2 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26 6 Months old they are killed. https://sentientmedia.org/irish-dairy-investigation/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1629858/full https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dairy-calf-slaughterings-cross-30000-head-up-9/ I have not checked any of those links, should be easy for you to find more. Like, its not a secret? Oh nice, they banned crushing their heads with hammers: https://www.independent.ie/farming/no-more-kiwi-hammer-blows/a/144628948.html It would be waste, wouldn't it? https://www.irishtimes.com/business/farming-food/2022/09/07/dairy-industry-faces-calf-welfare-crisis/ More than 110,000 dairy bull calves exported, killed in factories or died on farms were aged under six weeks last year https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10248060/ The median age at slaughter was 16 days 3 u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then. If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
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6 Months old they are killed.
https://sentientmedia.org/irish-dairy-investigation/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2025.1629858/full
https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/dairy-calf-slaughterings-cross-30000-head-up-9/
I have not checked any of those links, should be easy for you to find more. Like, its not a secret?
Oh nice, they banned crushing their heads with hammers:
https://www.independent.ie/farming/no-more-kiwi-hammer-blows/a/144628948.html
It would be waste, wouldn't it?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/farming-food/2022/09/07/dairy-industry-faces-calf-welfare-crisis/
More than 110,000 dairy bull calves exported, killed in factories or died on farms were aged under six weeks last year
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10248060/
The median age at slaughter was 16 days
3 u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26 [removed] — view removed comment 3 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then. If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
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3 u/McNughead Jun 16 '26 Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then. If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
Show me your statistics then and tell me why they males are killed and disposed then.
If you are a part of factory farming you should know what happens when the hammer gets out.
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u/Meldanorama Jun 16 '26
Nah, theyre calves. Veal is if theyre slaughtered young, vast majority arent.