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I never ate it because the are young. It seems too just double the reason not to eat it once you find out how inhumane they're treated. Of course, their moms aren't treated much better on the way to slaughter.

For both reason I don't eat meat or consume any animal products food or clothes or what ever. I have been a vegetarian for 25 years. Best regards.

I was given viel by my mom when i was little and i didn't like it. And even if i did like it, after i've seen how the young calves are treated, i'd never eat it again.

If they are mistreated, that is one thing, but I will eat veal. Our ancestors have eaten meat for aeons. I do not have a problem with that.

I don't eat beef at all but I especially wouldn't eat veal just because of how they treat the animals.

I don't see the raising of bovine for consumption as ''cruelty'' yo...

I know they are prohibited from any movement at all in order to produce the pale-colored flesh for which veal is coveted. I would say to the people who eat veal, is this truly necessary, a pale color, that is why they are in small crates, with no movement. Veal crates, usually measuring 2-feet-wide, cannot turn around, stretch their limbs, or even lie down comfortably.

I'm a big Meat-Eater from the Midwest USA so I'm pro veal. The only reason that cows exist (at least in the USA) is because we raise them for consumption, whether it be their flesh or their milk. With that in mind, I see no difference in what age the cow is butchered for ultimately the same end-result. That all being said, the cruelty opinion is based on the treatment of the animal. Even being a first-hand witness to this does not change my opinion though. Yes, the calves are boxed and not allowed to move... but so what? If they were regular cattle, they'd get to live a life where they walk around but still end up on the butcher's table. Not to mention that the living standards of regular cows can be just as despicable in other ways. At least the veal don't have to deal with it as long. Either way, the cute little baby cows sure do taste good!

I don't really care what age my meat is, I want it tender and juicy and medium well.

Even after after watching a video about how the cows chickens and pigs grown for food are treated in and out side of the Slaughter house - it didnt change my mind at all. I love Meat

I don't think the age matters much. I think it's the way the calf is treated while it is still alive. They are crammed into tiny pens where they cannot move so they do not gain muscle mass, and that is why the meat is so tender.

Ah, a MUCH better question than the last one I read by you, Hellaphunt! ("Do you know where veal comes from?" http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/2801356) This one delves into a person's underlying beliefs on the topic. Well done! I'm giving you points for the quality of the question alone. But this one is still leading...it assumes that everyone reading it thinks veal calves are treated with cruelty. I'm still giving you points, though. Now for my reply: As an omnivore, I have no problem with eating meat or vegetables, including veal. To me, cruel treatment of an animal involves physical or mental torture which places the animal under undue stress. For example, beating the animal places the animal under undue stress. Also, torture which results in the animal living in a constant state of fear or which causes the animal to react with extreme fear is also cruel; like associating humans with physical abuse will cause an animal to sometimes react violently at the sight of a human. Farmers who raise animals for food do not abuse them. Abuse leads to stress and stress leads to less weight gain. Abuse costs money, BIG money. There are individuals who behave otherwise, of course, but they are the exceptions, not the rule. With that in mind, I do not believe veal calves are treated cruelly. I've always thought "inhmane" was a kind of contradiction in terms when dealing with non-human species. The definition, in part, is "not humane; lacking and reflecting lack of pity, kindness, or compassion." Pity, kindness, and compassion are human terms which have no DIRECT analog in the animal kingdom. Only humans fully understand these terms, and I sometimes wonder about that. Applying human terms to animal lives is therefore not an accurate depiction of what a given species understands and experiences. A leopard, for example, has no concept of "humanity" as we understand it when it rips the throat out of a gazelle who is too young to flee fast enough to escape. "Humanity" and "inhumanity" are terms used by humans to describe human behavior. They are not concepts which apply directly to animals. With that in mind, it may be considered by some that the mere captivity of a calf in a small stall and then killing it for food while it is still young to be cruel. I, however, do not as long as the animal is not placed in undue stress as I've discussed above. On that note, I welcome a discussion of YOUR beliefs and why you hold to them.

I have never eaten veal, and I never will. I was watching a show (I forget which one) and someone said that the calves raised for veal died of loneliness. I do not know if this is accurate, but at the time I was going through something particularly emotionally painful, and hearing this broke me. It hurts just to think about.

I was always disgusted by this practice of eating Veal. I became a lacto ovo vegetarian over 10 years ago. I recently found out that the Veal industry is directly related to the dairy industry. They keep the cows pregnant all the time to get milk. When they have the calves, the females are kept as dairy cows and the males are sold to veal farmers. I had no idea that my using dairy products was contributing to something so awful. Veal is a byproduct of the dairy industry.

I avoid veal. I have not eaten it in more than 30 years. I figure that if there is no market for it, producers will stop treating animals cruelly.

Age has no effect on it being cruel or not! How about this. Volunteer to do work at a Bird of Prey center! One of the main jobs in the morning is preparing ONE DAY OLD CHICKS for the birds, and PULLING THE LEGS OFF for the flying of the birds. As a consumer of meat, I honestly don't mind about how the animal is treated. Don't dare downrating me for this, it's my opinion and I have the right to say it. Try and stop me voicing my opinion and your a Nazi. But I delve off the point. Keeping animals in small cages is cruel, I'll give you that, but my reason for being against battery farming is the quality of meat. If batter farming was banned, thousands of people would have to go hungry as they could not afford to purchase meat that has been more expensively reared. Back on the chick argument. at the chicken farm, when the chicks are one day old, they are sexed. The females go through the process of preparing them for a life of egg producing or for meat, and the males are taken away and culled, as there is no point of keeping them. The dead chicks are either sent away to be used as COMPOST or sent to bird of prey centers to be put back in the food chain. Heres something to you vegetarians: The reason we eat meat is because God made it that way. It is nature for humans to eat lesser life forms. So don't go trying to convert me or any other sane person. That's all. And if anyone Downrates me for this answer, then your a Nazi. I have a right of free speech you know. :p

I eat meat but only a couple times a week. I stopped eating veal after I learned how the calves were treated. Did you know that the calves that were forced fed the most have the lightest colored meat and the "best tasting" meat. It is also the most expensive. I heard, but have not seen, that dogs being prepared for "supper", in Korea are beaten first. People that eat dog say that this makes them tender. It is o.k. to eat meat but there is no reason to torture any animal. I won't eat veal, dog, or pork. The first two, because it is just wrong. Pork literally makes me sick. We eat meat because it's our nature. Torture is a learned process that twists minds.

The cruelty for sure! baby mutilators for eat! Yuck!!

neither, it it in the fact that the calf is a living being with a desire to be happy ie. fed and comfurtable and a desire not to be harmed, in oltherwords it loves and fears just like you and me ,think about it.