Guest guest Posted June 18, 2000 Report Share Posted June 18, 2000 VEAL OFF SOME CHIC MENUS By BABARA HOFFMAN http://www.nypostonline.com/living/5991.htm A DOZEN New York City restaurants have opted to stop serving " milk-fed " veal in response to a campaign by an animal-rights group called Farm Sanctuary. Among the eateries opting to eighty-six the controversial calf meat - so tender because the animal is confined - are the Four Seasons, Gramercy Tavern, Picholine, Savoy, Tavern on the Green and Babbo, said the group's spokeswoman, Carol Moon. She hopes more will sign her pledge. " Milk-fed veal are taken from their mothers at one or two days old and chained in crates as narrow as 22 inches wide, so they can't even turn around, " says Moon. The " more humane " kind of veal, says Moon - who eats no meat, eggs or dairy products - is " free-range veal, " which comes from calves that are allowed to graze. Restaurants that haven't agreed to veto veal include Balthazar and Café des Artistes. " I find it hard to imagine that all the prominent restaurants in New York have signed it, " says Jenifer Lang, co-owner and managing director of Café des Artistes, who says the issue is really one of semantics. " Free-range veal is red; milk-fed veal is white. The way you make veal veal is by raising it in a certain way, " she says. " If we investigated how the animals we eat have been raised altogether, we'd find our sensibilities would be taxed, to say the least. I don't question [Moon's] empathy, but we're in the business to please customers. We're not a vegetarian restaurant, and our customers don't want us to be a vegetarian restaurant. " -- ------------------------ Free email services provided by http://www.goodkarmacafe.com powered by OutBlaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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