[Sca-cooks] Veal, was: Mutton (tolerance question - OP)

[Saint Phlip]

Yes, there are humane veal choices, but using them tends to reduce the quality.

In the normal course of events, the baby cattle are removed from their
mothers, and kept in a dark area with no room to move.

Removal from their mothers isn't really the problem- most milk cows
have their babies removed after a couple days because the ladies can
actually withhold their milk if their babies aren't getting it, which
can be very annoying for a milk farmer (Not that they all do. A friend
of mine had a Jersey who'd feed her own babies and three more, as well
as standing their happily while the owner milked her, but enough do
that it simply isn't profitable to allow the babies to stay).

However, many of the babies are kept in the dark in a very limited
area so they don't move around because any movement develops muscle
and connective tissue, which you don't want in veal.

I don't have any problem eating a critter that has been given a chance
to live, but I will NOT support treating animals like that.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
<samia at idlelion.net> wrote:
> I'll pull this into another thread.
>
> Are there humane veal choices? I see it in some recipes, but my
> understanding is like yours. I know there is a humane foie gras:
> http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html
>
> Sayyeda al-Kaslaania
>
> On 4/30/2011 5:49 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>>
>> Very interesting, considering that veal is young cow. Personally, I
>> don't eat veal because I don't care for the way veal cattle are
>> treated.
>>
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