This is beyond sickening... :( Read the last line from the article section I posted below.. And then read it again... And again...See where welfarism gets animals? Dead...no matter what... He repeats the pattern until the calves are around 30 weeks old. By then, they weigh 450 to 500 pounds and are ready for slaughter. Under the old methods, calves were slaughtered when they were younger, sometimes at 12 weeks, and weighed slightly less. Mr. Glass said his method appeals to what he calls the “moral boundary” generally missing in the beef industry. He previously raised Angus and Gelbvieh calves, which were weaned early, treated with antibiotics and fattened up in stockyards. Strauss’s pasture-based calves are chaperoned by their mothers until they leave the farm. Each is a descendant of a lean French heritage breed called Limousin. ***The approach has drawn guarded praise from animal rights groups.*** nytimes/2014/08/13/dining/veal-farmers-adopt-more-humane-methods.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone&_r=0
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:09:02 +0000
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