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Veal Eaters: Try to Stomach This One
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Baby cows are torn from their mothers hours after they're born and then kept weak and immobile in filthy pens for the entirety of their short lives. And if that fails to register your compassion or your disgust, let's try this tidbit: Your next veal meal just might be laced with poison.
That's right—federal charges have been issued against Select Veal Feeds Inc. for allegedly lacing feed with formaldehyde in order to lessen diarrhea and with potassium permanganate to ensure that the anemic calves' flesh appeared even lighter. Wayne Marcho and Select Veal Feeds are expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor charges of misbranding under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The company also faces a felony charge for lying to Food and Drug Administration inspectors.
The moral of this story? If you eat veal, not only do you contribute to the suffering of an infant, you also risk eating toxic chemicals that you'd find in a high school chemistry lab.
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Did you say they LIED to the FDA!? Another episode, another day I'm reminded to be proud to be a PETA person.
Posted by: Jacob | October 2, 2009 06:22 PM
Veal eaters are irreparably morally impoverished.
Posted by: Brien Comerford | October 2, 2009 08:19 PM
Hi:
Iwant to know why people with infuence and clout, can be called upon to shut down any and all animal cruelty places ok?
I just go nuts when I read about any animal cruelty.
Thanks Cindy Haas
Posted by: cindy haas | October 2, 2009 10:40 PM
Sick! It tears my insides apart and breaks my heart every time I think of those innocent babies being torn from their mothers and then tortured just so an asshole can eat them and shit them out.I will never understand how a person cannot have compassion for all animals, especially the the babies.
Posted by: Tammy | October 3, 2009 09:06 AM
The moral is not veal=poison. The moral in this scenario is to be yourself.
Posted by: John | October 3, 2009 04:42 PM
I just became Vegan, but I never ate a baby cow in my life. But for some people that think that drinking milk and eating cheese is okay. You are supporting the production of veal. Their dairy cow mothers are kept pregnant so they keep producing milk and their male calves are taken away to make veal.
Posted by: Lori Snow | October 3, 2009 06:34 PM
i have been vegetarian for almost four years now--yay! an growing up I tried to go veggie many times, but given i was still under my parents' rules, they didn't think it was healthy for me. I did, however, refuse to eat veal and that was something they never forced me to do. They sometimes joked about it, but my adamant replies of how cruel it is to, not only kill and eat an animal but to kill and eat a BABY animal, put an end to their protests. One day, hopefully, I will convince them to follow in my footsteps. I have already succeeded with one cousin.
Posted by: christina moschella | October 3, 2009 08:09 PM
Don't Italians use veal for recipes, it's a disgrace such a beautiful country. I would protest veal in Italy if I had enough money.
Posted by: muaythai | October 3, 2009 08:36 PM
this is sick and sad , stop it now ,, pleasezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted by: michelle | October 4, 2009 04:06 AM
unfortunatley we have a lot of sad numbskulls in the world, but hey! everthing comes around, i wish i could erase all the sad scum from the planet
Posted by: anne westerman England | October 4, 2009 12:30 PM
Mmmmm formaldehyde.
Posted by: Becci | October 4, 2009 12:54 PM
Leave the babies alone! Babies belong with their mothers and should be drinking THEIR mothers' milk.
Go vegan, it is a moral imperative.
Posted by: AAG | October 5, 2009 09:38 AM
I just don't get it, I want to know whose pockets are being lined to just walk away from all this abuse. When I read and see things like this I know there has to be a God, I do not claim to do the right things all the time but I would never knowingly hurt an animal, I love my pets like family members. There definetly needs to be stricter laws governing farm animals. We will never be a totaly meat eating free world.I believe I read about CAK on your website, what can be done to make farmers and like do away with their methods that are brutal and to adopt CAK,or can we say we have had enough and try to change some laws here because it seems to be getting worse with all this animal abuse. I just wish instead of seeing advertised specials on meat on T.V. we could show just how special your meat really is.....
Posted by: Maureen | October 5, 2009 10:12 AM
As harsh as this may sound, I kind of feel like anyone who has the nerve to eat an innocent baby cow who lived a miserable, tortured life just so you can have him for dinner deserves to be poisoned. I may sound ridiculous for wishing this upon people, but at least I don't support the veal industry. No animal, let alone a baby animal, deserves such disgusting treatment.
Posted by: katie | October 5, 2009 03:21 PM
Katie,
But humans deserve to be posioned? You are truly an angel.
Posted by: Kurt K | October 5, 2009 05:48 PM
People are so damn selfish that they're willing to overlook the torture of a baby animal for a moment of taste. It's sad that we live in a society that is motivated ONLY by pleasure and money.
Posted by: Michelle | October 5, 2009 10:17 PM
I find the action of eating veal reprehensible.
However, I would eat a baby with absolutely no qualms what so ever.
Posted by: Brandon | October 5, 2009 10:42 PM
I can't be a vegan, ever. Sorry guys. I eat only white meat now, and that's not even very often. I have even been subjected to eating emus. But I have never, will never eat veal. I've met so many small farmers who take such good care of their animals before sending them off. But that, that is disgusting. Oh it's way too early to read PETA articles today.
Posted by: Tempest Phebus | October 6, 2009 07:34 AM
sorry Kurt.. but if you choose to eat meat and veal.. yes.. so be it if a human gets poisened!!!
Posted by: carla | October 6, 2009 02:00 PM
Carla,
Is that a threat?
If it is, you better watch yourself.
Posted by: Kurt K | October 6, 2009 06:19 PM
Umm, so is a full grown lion in the wild morally justified in singling out the baby antelope because it is easier to catch?
If I went out and caught a baby cow from the wild and ate it would I be ok?
Animals can be cruel to other animals for sustanence but I can't? Where is the fairness in this world PETA desires?
Posted by: Chris | October 7, 2009 12:18 PM
Chris, do you really think that people should model their behavior after what other animals do? Should we paint the walls of our cages with our own feces too?
Posted by: Allen | October 8, 2009 09:38 AM