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Calf massacre looms in Ireland: dairy sales up, beef sales drop

January 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“Every sperm is sacred,”  as are profits,  but calf welfare is not DUBLIN,  Ireland––Irish dairy farmers,  having bred an expected 800,000 more bull calves to be born in spring 2020 than they can profitably sell in a contracting global beef market,  may resort to shooting hundreds of thousands at birth,  Guardian newspapers reporters Sophie Kevany […]

Filed Under: Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Ireland, Isles, Live transport, Meat issues Tagged With: Barry Roche, Conor Heneghan, Joe Burke, Mattha Busby, Merritt Clifton, Michael Creed, Michael Geary, Sophie Kevany

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