(j/k, Duck...but they really aren't ugly)
This post kind of goes with the seal pup post. Didn't want to hijack the thread.
Veal comes from calves that are killed at a young age. Their lives consist of being chained in a small area with just enough slack in the chain for them to lie down or stand. They're taught to drink milk (actually milk replacer that is a soy-type stuff) from a bucket. How do I know this? I rescued two calves from a veal barn. Flossie and Sambo were my first 2 bottle babies. Sambo was a Holstein bull (had to sell him after he got about 2 yrs old 'cause he got to aggressive). Here's a pic of Flossie (my 6 yr old baby) saying "hello":
Most of the milk we get from the stores come from Holstein cows. (like Annie and Fannie, who, by the way, are twins. I got them at 3 days old. They turned 5 yrs old in March). There are also other dairy breeds (Jerseys, Gurnseys, Ashyres sp?, milking shorthorns, and some others I can't think of right off hand). A good Holstein cow will give several gallons of milk each day. Dairys measure the milk by the pound but I forget how many pounds are in a gallon of milk. I do know that my Holstein was giving 4 gallons per day with only one milking. She'd probably have doubled that amount had I milked her twice daily like the dairys do. (before you get a comical image in your head of me hand-milking a cow, I have a milking machine
Put her some grain in the trough, lead her in the barn, hook her up and it's done in about 10 mins compared to 2 or 3 hrs of trying to hand milk LOL) NO, we don't use the milk. I gave it to my neighbors for their dogs until I bought two calves to bottle feed.
The milker doing it's job on Annie: (Don't panic. That's NOT poop on her hoof. It's teat sanitizer that dripped onto her foot
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And Annie's twin sister, Fannie:
Most of the beef we see in the grocers comes from beef cattle (angus, brangus, semmintal sp?, brahmen, etc.). Flossie is a "beef cow". Occasionally, after a dairy cow has reached a point at which she is no longer a profit for the dairyman to keep, she goes to the sale barn. From there she sometimes gets lucky and is purchased to be used as a nurse cow (given the job of raising 2 or 3 calves at a time) or perhaps a family milk cow. More often than not, she is used for beef.
You can see my crew, including Annie's face here: http://www.angelfire.com/folk/anniesplace/ . Since making the webpage, I've sold a few and lost a couple. I've added 2 new "boys" but haven't gotten their pics up yet.
I was having my car repaired one time, there was a church next door, they had a baby cow for the nativity play. It was so cute. I won't eat veal anymore 
