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Dale Bakke
New York Beef Council
Veal Culinary Tour
VEAL 101
AVA President
Wisconsin
Veal production for 32 years
AVA D B a k k e @ O u t l o o k . c o m
A m e r i c a n Ve a l . c o m
Dale Bakke, AVA President
November 3, 2016
The American Veal Association,
originally founded in 1984, is a
member driven organization that
represents businesses and
individuals engaged in the milkfed veal industry.
History of Veal
What is Veal
How & Where Veal
are Raised
Our Commitment
to Food Safety &
Animal Care
Veal Quality Assurance
Group Housing
AmericanVeal.com
The History of Veal
The History of Veal
• Biblical references to the “fatted calf”
• Romans enjoyed veal
• Austrians and Italians both lay claim to
creating wiener schnitzel
• Veal features prominently in both French
and Italian cuisine
• Veal parmigiana, usually served with pasta,
is considered an Italian-American recipe
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What is Veal?
What is Veal?
• AVA proposal to USDA:
• Webster’s Dictionary:
• A calf raised for its meat,
usually a milk fed animal,
less than three months old
• British Dictionary:
• The flesh of a calf as used
for food
What is Veal?
Three classes
• Milk-fed Veal – diet comprised mostly of milk
and having a dressed weight between 100 and
400 pounds.
• Bob Veal – a calf with a dressed weight of less
than 100 pounds
• Grain or Grass Fed Veal – diet comprised mostly
of grain, grass, or some other forage and having a
dressed weight between 175 and 425 pounds
Dairy Farm
2015 USDA TOTAL
VEAL SLAUGHTERED
445,501
Dairy Steers
• Marketed at 12001400 pounds
BOB VEAL
170,210
Formula-FED
249,903
Bob Veal Calves
• Marketed at 80 –
150 pounds
NON-SPECIAL-FED
6,568
Milk-Fed /
Formula-Fed Veal
• Marketed at 450 -500
pounds
HEAVY CALVES
OVER 400 POUNDS
18,820
About 85% of veal meat
is derived from milk-fed veal
Where is milk-fed veal produced?
Milk-Fed Veal
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Pennsylvania
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
More than 50%
of all milk-fed
veal is raised by
Amish and
Mennonite farm
families
Average farm raises
about 200 calves
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Milk-fed
veal receive
milk and
some grain
• Skim Milk Powder
(SMP)
• Whey Protein
Concentrate (WPC)
• Whey
What impacts veal prices?
Bull Prices
Feed Costs
The milk
formula is
nutritionally
balanced
Committed to Quality
Committed to Quality
• Food safety is our top
responsibility
• Begins on farms and
continues through our
processing facilities
• Do what’s right at all
times to produce a
product we feel
confident to feed our
own families
• We have an ethical
obligation to care for our
calves
• Antibiotics are used only
as needed and under the
direction of a veterinarian
• Hormones are never used
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Veal Quality Assurance
Industry Moves to Group Housing
Veal Quality Assurance (VQA) is a national, voluntary
program of science-based best practices and
standards developed by farmers and veal experts to
ensure that veal calves receive quality care through
every stage of life and are raised using production
standards that result in a safe, wholesome, quality
product that meets regulatory and customer
expectations.
• In 2007 AVA set a goal to have all milk-fed
veal calves comfortably housed in group
pens by December 31, 2017
• Since then the industry has invested more
than $50 million in new barns and
renovations
• We are well on the way to meeting this goal!
Specifically, VQA is designed to address all
aspects of animal care and on-farm practices
that will enhance veal calf quality.
Today, 90% of milk-fed veal
are raised in group pens
Please visit our website
AmericanVeal.com
Milk-fed Veal Meat
Our commitment to
innovation, collaboration
and quality continues from
the farm … to processing
facilities … to you!
•Nutritious
•Succulent
•Tender
•Creamy white to
pale pink meat color
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First Delivery of Dutch Veal
A V A E x p r e s se s C o n c e r n t o U S D A
Thank you
“The myriad drugs approved
for use by Netherlands’ veal
producers is completely at
odds with any sense
of ’equivalence’ in the arena
of livestock production
methods between the U.S and
the Netherlands.”
Dale Bakke, AVA president
Support/Require American raised and processed veal
Questions
for choosing and preparing veal!
Questions
Please visit our website
Please visit our website
AmericanVeal.com
AmericanVeal.com
Thank You!
www.AmericanVeal.com
Dale Bakke, AVA President
[email protected]
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