I just think it's great that people that saw the segment now know cows don't just make milk for us to drink! SO many people still have no idea cows need to give birth to produce milk
wait, let me get this straight.
The dairy industry use to be able to starve calves as long as they wanted but now tougher restrictions are in place to make it illegal to not feed calves for longer than 30 hours?
Is that true because that sounds like an improvement?
Industry guidelines currently state that bobby calves shouldn't be left without food for more than 10 hours. But this guideline is not 'enforceable', and most operators leave the calves without food for much longer.
Changing the 10 hour guideline to a 30 hour standard is the industry's way of legalising what is already occurring -- operators starving calves of food for up to 20 hours longer than the current guideline recommends.
This will give people in the industry even less incentive to ensure calves are fed within a reasonable timeframe, and yes, the industry is calling this an animal welfare 'improvement'!
30 hours doesnt seem much to us, but its a baby animal and cows drink their mothers milk 5 times a day. Thats whats so wrong about it.
I agree that it was a bit sugar coated, but I guess they had to!
They mentioned at the beginning that cows need to have a baby to make milk but it was really quick and if you weren't paying much attention then you would have missed it, so I think they could have shown that a bit better and maybe mentioned about the intelligence and motherly instinct of the cows/calves and the bond they have and the stress of being separated.
I liked that Husey said that he used to work in an abattoir and that he saw personally the stress the calves went though and that made him stop eating veal.
All in all though its a really positive step that it was on and it showed and got people thinking!
wait, let me get this straight.
The dairy industry use to be able to starve calves as long as they wanted but now tougher restrictions are in place to make it illegal to not feed calves for longer than 30 hours?
Is that true because that sounds like an improvement?
Industry guidelines currently state that bobby calves shouldn't be left without food for more than 10 hours. But this guideline is not 'enforceable', and most operators leave the calves without food for much longer.
Changing the 10 hour guideline to a 30 hour standard is the industry's way of legalising what is already occurring -- operators starving calves of food for up to 20 hours longer than the current guideline recommends.
This will give people in the industry even less incentive to ensure calves are fed within a reasonable timeframe, and yes, the industry is calling this an animal welfare 'improvement'!
oh ok thanks.
no wonder i was confused, it seems like a restriction that is ignored is being replaced by another restriction to make it seem like restrictions are not ignored.
Moral of the story, dont drink milk
