Still Wet, the Baby Calf was Wheeled Away…

…to a tiny crate. “Denied the rights to her first drink of milk, she would instead wait 6 hours in the crate until the farmer would bottle feed her the colostrum her body needed, but from a bottle. The rest of the mother’s milk would end up in the supermarket.” The full story is here.

This calf, like millions of dairy calves, will barely even know her mother or her herd. Part of the everyday cruelty of dairy.

There are lots of cruelty-free, healthy nondairy alternatives. This is a good week to start trying them.