Why I am a Vegan

[Jade]

Warning Semi-Graphic 2 Minute Video (They use blurring).

https://www.facebook.com/virtueforanimal...555731204/

I'm posting this because I think it's important for people to see what actually goes on in the dairy industry and how they deal with male calves.

When they say at the end that "they go to waste".  Is this literal?  Like not even using their meat for food ?
 

Exactly.

Not sure if eating one-day old babies would be that much better though?

From my current perspective, it makes a world of difference.  I guess one could say that it was not for nothing, that it was so that others could be fed from the mother's milk.  At my house we converted to lacto-ovo.  I am aware that babies are getting killed as collateral to produce the milk, but at least I thought their meat would be used by those still eating it.  But this is just ridiculous.  My household is still in transition and stupid stuff like this makes me want to speed up things.  Ah well !  Just another thing to add to the quasi infinite pile of stuff to learn to accept...  I must remind myself again that I am not here to fix it.
 

Basically, the little bit of dog food that can be made off of a newborn calf is not worth the cost of transporting that calf to the slaughterhouse and keeping it alive in the interim. Lots of dairy farms just dig holes and pile the bodies up in them.  Some dairies are set up to produce veal, so they keep the males and fatten them up for a few months, but this is also rarely cost effective. This is just one reason why a lot of dairy farms are going out of business.