BOBBY CALVES
Sir,- Your correspondent Rewa Glenn (May 18) says of the "bobby calf" trade: ". . . The majority of us are ignorant of the true facts of this trade," and then admirably illustrates this ignorance by saying: "Is it not a fact that a vein is cut and the poor animal is left to bleed to death in order that veal meat may be pale?" This is completely untrue. Bobby calves are not bled to death. Veal meat is produced from yearling calves-not from bobby calves, Meat produced from bobby calves is manufactured into meat pastes and-into other pastes with more fanciful but less truthful names, Any element of cruelty in killing bobby calves (as distinct from killing any other food-producing animals) lies in the fact that the calves must make the journey from farm to killing works when they are three days old. It is for the individual farmer and carrier to see that the discomfort of these animals is kept to a minimum.
DONALD
RAE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 5
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167BOBBY CALVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 5
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