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2 February 2011 Have your say
In one short week the response to Animals Australia's bobby calf campaign has been overwhelming. Our highly successful newspaper ad campaign was followed by articles in major papers and discussions on popular radio stations.
Consequently, many consumers across Australia are learning for the first time that cows don't automatically produce milk — but rather are kept almost continually pregnant; their unwanted babies taken from them shortly after birth and slaughtered by the thousands.
And on Feb 2nd — Channel 10's prime-time panel show, the 7PM Project, aired a special feature on the little-known plight of these forgotten calves.
Please encourage friends and family to watch this story. Exposing the long-held secrets of the dairy industry will inspire more people to become better informed, speak out, and consider cruelty-free alternatives that are kind to calves!
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nicho:
have a look
Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 11:50am
if the dairy industry paid enough to dairy farmers for our milk we would not have to sell bobby calves as we would be able to afford to keep them fattern them up and sell them when they are older. most farmers do the right thing. It is easy to pick a few things to put on a video to make things look worse than they are people should not jump on dairy farmers who work hard to supply food just because of a video go to a farm and have a look its not as bad as they are telling you. Our calves are kept nice and warm in a shed in winter, calves on cows can freeze to death on frostie nights out side.
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Robert Glisenti:
They would of been happy if
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 9:52pm
How different the animal world would be if there never was a Adam
and Eve and that oh so forgiving God .We do not deserve a place on this earth. Such cruel heartless creatures are we humans.Tormentors of those who cannot defend themselves from our evil.
My heart goes out to every animal and may they escape our blood stained hands and live a happy life with out us .
and Eve and that oh so forgiving God .We do not deserve a place on this earth. Such cruel heartless creatures are we humans.Tormentors of those who cannot defend themselves from our evil.
My heart goes out to every animal and may they escape our blood stained hands and live a happy life with out us .
Amanda L:
More cruelty
Thursday, 3 November 2011 at 4:56pm
I was so distressed when i did find out about the calves - they are infants. I went from Vegetarian to Vegan....Human beings are cruel & sadistic bastards - the more exposure it gets the more the public will see this disgusting vile practice!!
Jennifer Simpson:
So Upsetting WHY!
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 4:56pm
I watched "Earthlings" recently and today I watched the Bobby Documentary. I am shocked and so upset that I have been crying all afternoon. How can we do this! For what to enjoy a latte or a milkshake. Why are we still drinking milk after child birth? How can we separate baby calves from their mum's for us! And to see what they have to endure as a life after they are born. Who we do we think we are! We are all earthlings and equals, I feel so guilty for enjoying milk all of these years. I am now turning vegan, I have lost heaps of weight and am happier as I am not participating in this cruelty. It is a fact that dairy is not good for us, how can live off mother cows who are supposed to feed their babies I hate that this happens!!! I just hope that one day we will leave them alone and let them live a decent life.
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Ann Beckett:
CRUELTY IN DAIRY
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 at 10:33am
I was standing in a supermarket queue recently with my Animals Australia "A more Compassionate World" shopping bags. An elderly lady noticed them and told me that as a child on a dairy farm she was so upset at how the newly delivered mothers would cry for for days grieving for their calves taken straight from them and slaughtered. In my ignorance, I did not know this cruelty occurred, nor the shocking situation with bobby calves. Since Animals Australia's campaign against Bobby Calves in February I have given up dairy products. I can't contribute to this cruelty!
Ven:
The Health Benefits of Soy Milk
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 9:41pm
I haven't really thought about this until now... im digusted and sad by this and im going to cut down on my consumption of milk... can someone tell me, does soy milk have the same benefits as cow's milk?? thanks u
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thought:
final thought
Friday, 30 September 2011 at 7:03am
I understand that there are BAD dairy farmers around don't get me wronge, but i have also seen some great ones. One in particlar stands out, there cows are on fresh green pasture everyday, calves are not a waste product and they and myself have been known to be up all night with a sick calf. Like everything there are good and bad in every industry, maybe people should be trying to focus a bit more on some of the farmers working hard to give there animals the best of care and put some support behind them to incurage others to follow there lead. Not just slam the whole industy.
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Melissa Gamble:
I now drink SOY
Friday, 19 August 2011 at 3:49pm
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I now drink soy as a result of seeing your campaign.
V & S:
Dairy has lost me too
Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 11:18am
Why was it introduced into the human diet in the first place? Was there a famine or something.
vicky:
OMG
Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 10:18pm
I just had someone tell me about the bobby cows just now. I am now changing my dairy to the alternatives. I am sooooo disgusted that we are not shown this before we decide to have dairy. What a disgrace!!! I am sick to my stomach!!! can't deal with seeing all this torture anymore :-(
NARA SILVEIRA:
Austrália watch out!
Thursday, 26 May 2011 at 12:33pm
Australia, please! Stop abusing animals, because you already are in my prayers catastrophic. Believe me, they happen!
Suzie:
Calves belong with their mothers
Saturday, 30 April 2011 at 11:31am
In reply to the below message (from "shaking-my-head-in-disgust"), I'm sorry honey-bunny but you are the one who is misinformed. My family were dairy and sheep farmers and believe me, they may tell you that story, but the truth is that calves are supposed to have their own mothers' milk, just like a human baby is supposed to have its mother's milk. It's nature, honey-bunny. Don't believe the commercial story you're handed out. As a child, I was even told by my farming family that animals didn't feel pain. Of course they do! Just like us!
CALVES AND THEIR MOTHERS BELONG TOGETHER FOR MONTHS. In fact, they are a social group family and we are interfering when we remove them at all, ... although fences (i.e. barriers) mean that cattle generally can't practise natural herd behaviour. If we can't accommodate that, and I don't think we can on a large scale, we should not be impregnating them.
shaking-my-head-in-disgust said: "Calves are raised by hand as they can not drink the amount of milk a true dairy cow produces, and to avoid the transfer of desiese. "
CALVES AND THEIR MOTHERS BELONG TOGETHER FOR MONTHS. In fact, they are a social group family and we are interfering when we remove them at all, ... although fences (i.e. barriers) mean that cattle generally can't practise natural herd behaviour. If we can't accommodate that, and I don't think we can on a large scale, we should not be impregnating them.
shaking-my-head-in-disgust said: "Calves are raised by hand as they can not drink the amount of milk a true dairy cow produces, and to avoid the transfer of desiese. "
adam torrisi:
cow's our mother
Thursday, 28 April 2011 at 6:06pm
anyone that eats meat is a demon and not a human being
and is going straight to hell for as many thousands of hairs on the mother cow that many thousands years he will be living hell.
Show 1 replyand is going straight to hell for as many thousands of hairs on the mother cow that many thousands years he will be living hell.
shaking my head in disgust:
Get Your Facts Straight
Saturday, 23 April 2011 at 4:22pm
i work on several dairy farms and i can tell you this is a lot of mis information. Calves by law are taken in the first 12 hours but the colostrum from there mums is feed back to them. Calves are raised by hand as they can not drink the amount of milk a true dairy cow produces, and to avoid the transfer of desiese. Calves that are not keep are sold off to people willing to raise them, at this current time the cost of a calf is as high as $400 each. Dairy farmers hold onto everything they can, this story should be pointed at the companies and consumers who sell and drink milk for next to nothing not the farmer that is up before the sun to milk and yes they milk twice a day every day, if they didn't the cows would be at risk of DEATH due to mastitis and milk fever. I know were i milk the cows and calves are looked after better then any beef cattle i know of and watched constintly, they don't go without anything and the cost of this is huge. The dary industy at present is in bad shape with most running at a loss due to the dismal price they are paided for there milk. Peopke should be ashamed of themselves for beliving everything they are told. Try and remember that dairy farmers need the calves for future milkers.
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Samantha Knight:
Stressed milk
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 at 3:15pm
I have never eaten veal in my life. This is so sad i really love cows they r so intelligent . The mother cow is so stressed wen their calf is taken from them. Milk from a stressed animal is not good for any one. Wen will humans realize this.
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Poddy Lover:
7pm project
Saturday, 2 April 2011 at 3:19am
Has anyone ever told a bull not to hump a cow? Leave a cow and bull in a paddock and guess what the cow is pregnant every year. that's nature!!!
Poddy calves are so cute to play with & feed, but they will drink too much if left to their own devices that even their mothers deny them food to keep them alive.
Animals have been rejecting their young, eating them or viciously killing them in the case of baboons since the dawn of life.
Nature is all about survival of the fittest. If we treat fellow humans as well as most of us treat our animals the world would be a better place.
I personally like my veal at 9 months...much tastier, poddies have no taste and are much better in fertiliser.
Let's pick on smokers again... they are much more damaging on the environment with 1 cigarette causing more carbon monoxide pollution then 1 hour in peak traffic, they also spend more time in hospital causing more waste products & landfill, then there's the littering & not to mention the bush fires...oh & they stink!
Smokers are destroying the environment for our cute & cuddly animals!!!!
I'd encourage the 7pm project to expose this smoking secret, as obviously they have the power to get our deluded nation excited and make a stand. Oh hang on some of them smoke...oops!
Come on people what did you think happened to boy calves...that they went off to a farm to play with all the other nice boy calves?
Don't get me wrong I'm against undue pain & suffering, but I'm also a realist who knows that everything humans do has an impact on the environment & its animals...we are afterall at the top of the food chain!
Show 2 repliesPoddy calves are so cute to play with & feed, but they will drink too much if left to their own devices that even their mothers deny them food to keep them alive.
Animals have been rejecting their young, eating them or viciously killing them in the case of baboons since the dawn of life.
Nature is all about survival of the fittest. If we treat fellow humans as well as most of us treat our animals the world would be a better place.
I personally like my veal at 9 months...much tastier, poddies have no taste and are much better in fertiliser.
Let's pick on smokers again... they are much more damaging on the environment with 1 cigarette causing more carbon monoxide pollution then 1 hour in peak traffic, they also spend more time in hospital causing more waste products & landfill, then there's the littering & not to mention the bush fires...oh & they stink!
Smokers are destroying the environment for our cute & cuddly animals!!!!
I'd encourage the 7pm project to expose this smoking secret, as obviously they have the power to get our deluded nation excited and make a stand. Oh hang on some of them smoke...oops!
Come on people what did you think happened to boy calves...that they went off to a farm to play with all the other nice boy calves?
Don't get me wrong I'm against undue pain & suffering, but I'm also a realist who knows that everything humans do has an impact on the environment & its animals...we are afterall at the top of the food chain!
Susie:
Shame
Friday, 25 March 2011 at 12:10am
Who or what gives us "humans" the right to think we can treat animals with such applorable dissrespect.
The country I call home "Australia" is considering new laws governing how young calves are treated during transport to slaughter ...700,000 young defenceless baby animals slaughtered every year, shame.
"Transport operators like the animals to be "emptied out" to help keep their trucks clean, and abattoir operators like the calves to be relatively unsoiled when they kill them"
As a consumer all we have is people power, lets face it Coles and Woolworths aren't going to load up their big glossy catelogues with bobby calve images. We see the big red hand sticker telling us prices are down, or how fresh the fresh food people are, where are the booby calve images on the dairy shelf?
Don't their marketing teams realise consumers aren't dumb and have a right to honest marketing?
I'm appauled to think in this day and age that as a society we condone these inhumane actions.
Thank you Animals Australia for exposing this barbaric treatment.
No more dairy for me!
The country I call home "Australia" is considering new laws governing how young calves are treated during transport to slaughter ...700,000 young defenceless baby animals slaughtered every year, shame.
"Transport operators like the animals to be "emptied out" to help keep their trucks clean, and abattoir operators like the calves to be relatively unsoiled when they kill them"
As a consumer all we have is people power, lets face it Coles and Woolworths aren't going to load up their big glossy catelogues with bobby calve images. We see the big red hand sticker telling us prices are down, or how fresh the fresh food people are, where are the booby calve images on the dairy shelf?
Don't their marketing teams realise consumers aren't dumb and have a right to honest marketing?
I'm appauled to think in this day and age that as a society we condone these inhumane actions.
Thank you Animals Australia for exposing this barbaric treatment.
No more dairy for me!
System:
JUICE not milk
Wednesday, 2 March 2011 at 4:20am
It's soy JUICE, not soy milk.
It's a carbon DIOXIDE tax, not a carbon tax. Stop mis-informing your gullible followers.
Show 5 repliesIt's a carbon DIOXIDE tax, not a carbon tax. Stop mis-informing your gullible followers.
Anthony:
Cruelty Free Farming
Wednesday, 2 March 2011 at 12:50am
I have been a vegetarian for 7 years. I consume organic eggs and organic milk because I do not want a self inflicted vitamin b12 deficiency. I do not believe in supplements (it's just not my thing, full stop), therefore I consume eggs and milk. I am prepared to pay big bucks for eggs and dairy products. What we need in this day and age are cruelty free farms and farmers. I want eggs from chooks who were hatched by their mothers, not in a hatchery. I want dairy from cows, goats or sheep who were conceived naturally, raised by their mothers and provided humans with milk as well as their offspring at the same time. It is such a pity that in todays age we have no acess to products produced under such conditions.
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Jill:
There is no hope!
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 at 2:23am
I have been reading and re-reading all the messages posted during February with increasing disgust. The verbal abuse, malice, venom, sarcasm and nastiness passed back and forth between most of you made my blood run cold and made me despair.
So enthusiastic have many of you people been in ranting against each other; so determined have you been in clawing your way to the top of the pile and asserting your views as the only right ones; so outraged have many of you been in the perceived attacks on your honour; so savagely have you defended your indefensible practices, that the whole point and purpose of this forum has been entirely lost and forgotten... that of the plight of bobby calves in the Australian Dairy Industry, and a united outcry of humanity against these horrifying practices.
There is no hope!! How will humans ever cease the abuse, cruelty and mindless slaughter of animals when they are incapable of showing each other common courtesy and decency?
How will animals ever be considered anything more than commodities for the sole use or consumption of humans if humans are incapable of treating each other with respect?
There is no argument in defence of the bobby calf issue, or any animal cruelty issue. If as humans with a supposedly higher intelligence we cannot be united and be of one voice and one determination to improve the fate of these and all other animals in desperate need of help, then there is no hope, not only for animals, but ultimately for the human race.
So enthusiastic have many of you people been in ranting against each other; so determined have you been in clawing your way to the top of the pile and asserting your views as the only right ones; so outraged have many of you been in the perceived attacks on your honour; so savagely have you defended your indefensible practices, that the whole point and purpose of this forum has been entirely lost and forgotten... that of the plight of bobby calves in the Australian Dairy Industry, and a united outcry of humanity against these horrifying practices.
There is no hope!! How will humans ever cease the abuse, cruelty and mindless slaughter of animals when they are incapable of showing each other common courtesy and decency?
How will animals ever be considered anything more than commodities for the sole use or consumption of humans if humans are incapable of treating each other with respect?
There is no argument in defence of the bobby calf issue, or any animal cruelty issue. If as humans with a supposedly higher intelligence we cannot be united and be of one voice and one determination to improve the fate of these and all other animals in desperate need of help, then there is no hope, not only for animals, but ultimately for the human race.
See also:5 reasons to have a dairy-free EasterDairy's great calcium mythOpinion: For the mothers who give us milkOpinion: Milk is a feminist issue Kojonup farmer faces court over dairy cow cruelty charge Fact Sheet: Dairy Cows
Every year the dairy industry sends some 700,000 unwanted dairy calves (also known as 'bobby calves') to slaughter as 'waste products'. Find out more...
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