Victorian dairy farmer Roisin Powles says farmers do not like killing newborn bobby calves on farms or sending them to abattoirs."The whole idea of this little calf, a week old, going through the yard process, going on that big long truck ride, through the abattoir, it's just not pretty from any angle," Ms Powles said.There's a dairy farm going against tradition when it comes to calves.
However, the 2035 date has been criticised as unambitious and a threat to the industry's social licence.Healthy bobby calves are killed because there is no other use for them for the dairy industry.RSPCA's Natalie Roadknight said the public generally reacted negatively when they found out what happened to bobby calves.
"We reared the Wagyu-Holstein cross calves for 12 weeks and were actually able to sell those animals and purchase anPhoto shows Close up of very young and cute dairy calf in a shed."It was definitely a win-win for us." Mr Wilkinson said most of DBA's beef was exported for higher prices than what Australian buyers would pay because there was a bias that dairy cattle didn't produce high-quality beef.