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minus-squarehans@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·9 hours agomost dairy calves are brought to full weight before slaughter.
minus-squaredavepleasebehave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 hours agoa man who has never eaten veal.
minus-squarehans@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-27 hours agohardly any dairy calves end up as veal. the math https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/48685/milkcowsandprod.xlsx?v=1413.4 https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/livestock-meat-domestic-data/resource/257788c4-e153-4712-abf3-f2f339bbefec thousands_of_head_of_cows = 9448.0 actual_cows = 1000 * thousands_of_head_of_cows annual_male_calves = .5 * actual_cows veal_weight_of_calves_in_pounds = 260 annual_veal_production_in_millions_of_pounds = 58 annual_percentage_of_bobby_calves_that_become_veal = ((annual_veal_production_in_millions_of_pounds * 1000000) / (veal_weight_of_calves_in_pounds * annual_male_calves))*100 print(annual_percentage_of_bobby_calves_that_become_veal) 4.722204129486094
most dairy calves are brought to full weight before slaughter.
a man who has never eaten veal.
hardly any dairy calves end up as veal.
the math
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/48685/milkcowsandprod.xlsx?v=1413.4
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/livestock-meat-domestic-data/resource/257788c4-e153-4712-abf3-f2f339bbefec
4.722204129486094