High Welfare, RSPCA Freedom Food certified, English Veal Cotswold Veal is monitored by the RSPCA’s Freedom Food. We adhere to exceptionally high welfare standards.
Veal is 7-8 months old, beef is from 12 months.
Our veal is older than chicken (36 days), pork AND lamb (4 months)!
Veal rightly got a bad name in the 80’s-90’s due to calves being kept in terrible conditions. This is a world apart from Cotswold Veal.
Our calves are raised in social groups, in large outdoor open barns, they have natural lighting and ad lib natural food that is correct for their natural development. Their diets are nutritionally balanced. They have deep, clean straw beds to lie on. They are protected from the elements in winter, and have shade in the summer.
We eliminate stress from the animals lives. A relaxed bull puts on weight and is healthy. No castration, no de-budding (de-horning), no isolation, no transport longer than 1 hour at any stage of their life.We use native crosses such as Aberdeen Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn.
To keep a cow producing milk, she needs to have a calf every year. Bull calves have no purpose on a dairy farm, and are often unecomomic to rear on to beef. Thousands of bull calves are currently shot at only a day or two of age, or they are shipped abroad at the tender age of one or two weeks.
If you consume dairy products- you are ethically obliged to eat English veal.