Reports carried in the UK press last week said ‘tens of thousands’ of dairy calves are being shot and buried on farms, because foot and mouth and BSE restrictions had made them virtually worthless.

Richard Snow, the livestock director of one of the UK’s largest agricultural groups, Velcourt, said around 200,000 bull calves would have to be destroyed because they have no commercial value and it would cost the farmer to have them taken away.

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