The veal industry information listed on this page is shared in the spirit of keeping our loyal customers and consumers up-to-date of important grassroots and political activity affecting the veal industry, both here in the US and abroad.
If you are not currently a Strauss Brands customer, and wish to know more about how you can support the movement towards compassionately and humanely raised veal, please call 800-562-7775 and ask for a member of our customer service team, or, click ‘where to buy’ to find a local retailer near you currently offering Strauss Brands Group Raised or Free Raised® veal.
| January 12, 2010 |
Rosé veal – a more ethical choice?
January 12, 2010 | Full Story |
| September 22, 2009 |
Michigan Senate Approves Legislation Banning Veal Stalls by 2012. September 22, 2009 | Full Story
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| May 16, 2009 |
Strauss Brands Leads By Example, says HSUS.
May 16, 2009 |
Full Story |
| May 13, 2009 |
Governor Baldacci Signs Law Providing More Humane Treatment of Farm Animals. May 13, 2009
Maine Becomes Sixth U.S. State to Ban Extreme Confinement of Animals in Small Crates and Cages on Industrial Factory Farms. Full Story |
| May 7, 2009 |
New York State Ponders Better Conditions for Farm Animals.
May 7, 2009 | Farm Sanctuary
The Humane Society of the United States and Farm Sanctuary, headquartered in New York , announced enthusiastic support for legislation introduced in the New York State Assembly to provide more room for farm animals. Full Story
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| April 21, 2009 |
HSUS focuses aim on Ohio
Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 4:32 PM | By: Tom Steever
The Humane Society of the United States plans to take its animal agriculture restrictions campaign to Ohio. HSUS leaders, including the group’s president, Wayne Pacelle, met with the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association and some farm groups to let them know of their plans, according to a story from VIN News. Full Story |
| April 6, 2009 |
HSUS to take Prop 2-like action to Ohio. April 6, 2009 |
By: Jennifer Fiala
For The VIN News Service
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is taking its campaign to eliminate tight housing quarters for farm animals on the road. Next stop: Ohio.
In February, HSUS leaders Wayne Pacelle and Paul Shapiro sat down with agriculture groups and the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) and announced plans to bring California’s costly and contentious Proposition 2 to the state that ranks second in egg production and ninth in swine, nationally. The group intends to put a citizen referendum to ban sow gestation stalls, veal crates and battery cages for layer hens on the November 2010 ballot. Full Story
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| March 17, 2009 |
Bill with Similar Language to California Prop 2 Introduced in Maine State Senator John Nutting introduced Senate Proposition 385 (SP385) "An Act To Prohibit Cruel Confinement of Calves Raised for Veal and Sows during Gestation." On March 17, the bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The bill uses language similar to Proposition 2 to prohibit confining a sow or veal calf in a manner that prevents it from "lying down, standing up and fully extending the animal's limbs" and "turning around freely." This language is misleading to the typical consumer and does not improve animal welfare. |
March 15, 2009 |
Click here: Dutch shops ban 'anaemic veal' over animal rights concerns - Digital Journal: Your News Network |
| February 10, 2009 |
Senator James DeLeo (D-Chicago) introduced legislation in Illinois to ban crates at livestock farms. This language is similar to language proposed and adopted in other states by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). |
| January 20, 2009 |
Dutch SPA agrees with veal producer on further animal welfare improvements. The Hague, 20 January 2009
 After an agreement in the past about giving calves roughage besides milk and keeping them in group housing instead of narrow boxes, the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals reached a new agreement with the VanDrie Group the largest veal producer of the world for further improving the welfare of calves. Amongst the agreed points are immediately providing a diet that keeps the blood iron level of the calves away from the danger zone of anaemia, twice as much roughage as legally compulsory and in the future a soft laying area and long distance transport in climate controlled transport vehicles.
For the domestic market even stricter standards are agreed on and the Dutch
SPA therefore decided to grant its Better Life hallmark with one star to this
Dutch veal. Full Story |
| January 20, 2009 |
Tesco phasing out foreign veal. Britain's biggest supermarket chain has pledged to phase out its sales of imported veal. Tesco will instead stock British meat from calves bred to higher welfare standards. Full Story |
| December 24, 2008 |
In January 2007, Strauss Veal, the nation's largest veal producer, announced that within "two to three years," it would completely phase out its use of tiny crates to confine calves raised for veal.
And in December 2008, about two years later, the company's conversion is finished.
Strauss no longer uses crates or tethers to confine or restrain calves, instead keeping some in indoor group housing systems and others in free-range systems. Unlike those confined in veal crates, group-housed and free-range calves can at least walk and engage in more normal social behaviors. Full Story |
November 2008 |
CA voters pass Proposition 2 by 63% favorable margin. The Proposal effectively bans the raising of veal calves in crates, sows in gestation crates & laying hens in battery cages by 2015. |
2008 |
HSUS negotiated with Colorado’s veterinary profession and agriculture industry groups for a law to phase out swine stalls and veal crates. |
2007 |
American Veal Association (AVA) passes voluntary resolution cease raising veal calves in crates by 2017. As of December 31, 2008, 100% of Strauss Brands Special fed veal will be tether free and group raised, a full nine years ahead of the industry deadline.
Group raising was developed in Europe in the early 1990s after crate-raised and tethered veal was banned due to animal welfare concerns. Group raising allows freedom of movement and the ability to develop instinctual socialization and herding behaviors. We believe a tether free, group raised environment drastically reduces stress on the calves and improves their overall health. |
| 2007 |
Arizona voters outlawed gestation stalls by 2012. |
| 2002 |
Voters in Florida became the nation’s first to enact a ban on swine gestation stalls after HSUS waged a two-year publicity campaign and gathered more than 600,000 signatures to get the issue on the ballot. |
| December 14, 1995 |
Europe plan for ban on veal crates
December 14, 1995 | Catherine Butler |
The Independent Full Story |
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