Terry- Here I believe dairy cows are mostly Friesian and Jersey, neither of which is usually used as beef stock. Which means they mostly get sold off as bobby calves and shipped off to the meatworks.
Weirdly I picked up most of this stuff as a small kid from reading Footrot Flats comics(sort of like Peanuts but with flyblown ewes).
"Right about the calving. The bull calves aren't "put down". Well, not on the dairy farms I've known. They are sold - for pet food, I've always assumed."
I know that I'm just not sure what you guys call bobby calves (also my friend lives on a goat farm and they really do kill most of their bucks as soon as they're born, mostly for dog tucker).
"Dairy seems more of a stretch"
Larry I'm a vegetarian and dairy's actually the dodgiest of the animal products I still eat.
Cause from my understanding cows need to calve to start producing milk. There's a 50% chance that they'll produce a bull calf which (as with any non-productive animal on a farm) will just about certainly be put down.
So yeah from an ethical perspective I really should be giving up milk as well as animals are deliberately killed to produce it(unfortunately I don't believe I have the will power for this yet).
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