How do people feel about Veal?

Love veal, particularly escalopes with a bit of lemon juice. No guilt here, I don't discriminate against animals.
 
I dont see peoples issue with it, meats meat, weather its young or lived a longer miserable life, either way the animal would be slaughtered for the dinner plate. My veggy gf totally agrees with me on this one, although obviously she doesnt eat meat ! lol
 
I live & work on a dairy farm where we obviously milk and breed cattle. The heifers (providing the breed is correct) are kept to rear and the bulls sold at market.

I can safely say I've never eaten veal, I was brought up hearing tales of shocking living conditions for the calfs (in france IIRC)

Having caught a few mins of River Cottage and reading the OP I will be trying to source some soon! :)
 
its veally veally good. Love it.

Always try and look for a veal dish in an italian restaurant.

Im sure a lot of the meat that we eat is raised in far worse conditions than veal calves.

/edit- totally off topic but does anyone know where I can order Kobe/Wagyu beef online? I found one place (Lucie's Farm) but it's a 6 month+ waiting list.
 
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I’ve always liked veal, my mother-in-law used to make Wiener Schnitzel served with a sour cream cucumber salad, it was delicious. One of my favourites is the classic Roman dish Saltimbocca Alla Romana, served with saute potatoes and a simple salad, you should try it. :)
 
I love veal, so long as it's the UK reared rose kind, very tender and not as pricy as some premium beef/lamb cuts plus doesn't have the guilt factor of the crated, milk only fed eyes taped shut white veal kind.

What about Horse (Cheval) or Camel? - I'll admit to both - the former in France (when in Rome etc) and the latter in Egypt but described as Veal or Beef, didn't see many cows in the countryside ;)
 
I don't have anything against veal either, I just don't look for it on the shelf or in the butchers I think I will this week.
 
vonhelmet said:
Apparently veal calves are of a comparable age to lambs used for lamb, but there's never any fuss about lambs...
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the difference is that lambs run free, while the calves used to be stuck in boxes where they can't move, so that they have no muscle and taste delicious and are very tender.

nowadays they have more room, but they aren't allowed to run around outside.
 
Ive got no problem with eating veal, problem is its difficult to get hold of as others have said. So long as it was treated right and not cruely I dont have any issues with it.

Hawker
 
vcl_X1 - you need a geography lesson :p

I used to eat veal before I turned veggie (in 1991)

Too many people, especially in this country, anthropomorphise (sp?) animals. If they are cute and cuddly (ie. young) it's all "ahhh, I couldn't eat that".

I find that really annoying since it's based on sentimentality rather than any rational position - cute and cuddly = won't eat; old and knackered = will eat - where's the logic in that? I wonder how much of that discrimination/sentimentality carries over to other areas of their lives...I also wonder how many veggies are what they are because of sentimentality. Or where the lines lie between sentimentality/ empathy/ welfare concerns

More generally, when people are buying meat in the supermarket there's no connection in their minds between the shrink wrapped joint and a living animal...and there's no connection because they don't want to see the connection

If you eat meat, face it, you kill animals. They wouldnt be killed if it wasn't for you eating it, and since they are animals, is there really any difference between an old and a young animal...or for that matter, a sheep, a cow, ......a cat or a dog...trip to Korea anyone?

[Me? I choose not to eat meat because I don't know where it's come from. The chain between farmer and plate is too remote and you don't know what's happened in the meantime - look at what happened to those sheep that set off Foot & Mouth years ago - they had a nice tour of the UK.....but when I visit my sister in NZ I'm very happy to have her cow or sheep homekill - not much of a veggie really am I?]

There you are, that's Pipe's Meat Mainifesto/Rant Against Fellow Vegetarians
 
^^ Go to a good organic butcher and you can probably find out exactly what field your meat lived it's life in.
 
Pipe & Slippers said:
[Me? I choose not to eat meat because I don't know where it's come from. The chain between farmer and plate is too remote and you don't know what's happened in the meantime - look at what happened to those sheep that set off Foot & Mouth years ago - they had a nice tour of the UK.....but when I visit my sister in NZ I'm very happy to have her cow or sheep homekill - not much of a veggie really am I?]
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If you want to eat meat and that's all you are worried about. there are plenty of fantastic farm shops that know where and how they are farmed and many are more than willing to tell you or even let you look around.
 
I do eat it.
I eat any meat so long as it's reared properly. (preferably from a good butchers)

My butchery, in cricklade, he knows all about where his meat has come from and what sort of life it's lived. Pity my parents won't get on board with it for their weekly shop, i've gotten them to buy organic at least.
 
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