Calves are flown out
Cattle farmers yesterday began flying hundreds of veal calves aged less than two weeks to the Continent from Bournemouth and Humberside airports in an attempt to break the major ferry companies' ban on farm animal movements.
The animals will spend six months in confinement crates on a liquid diet at farms in the Netherlands before slaughter.
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