Help save bobby calves from further cruelty

Submitted by Kirsty Lawson on Mon, 07/02/2011 - 17:12

Animal Health Australia recently called for submissions on the proposed animal welfare standard for the transportation of bobby calves. 

Currently in Australia, 700,000 male calves born to dairy cows are treated as 'waste products' from the dairy industry and slaughtered.

Now the Australian government is considering a standard proposed by the Dairy Industry that would legalise bobby calves being deprived of food and water during the last 30 hours prior to slaughter.

For more information, please go to the Animals Australia website here.

If you'd like to send a letter to Dairy Australia expressing your opposition to this cruel proposal, please click here.

Or you can read the submission from this office, which is attached below.

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