Time to drop the stigma attached to dairy meat

摘要

It may be shocking for some to discover that more than half of beef consumed in the UK comes from the dairy industry. But as soon as the words beef and dairy fall in to the same sentence, it is automatically assumed the product is going to be second class. However, this image of dairy beef as a second-class product needs to change, says beef farmer and founder of Sterling Sires, Paul Westaway. "There is a stigma that suckler beef is better than Holstein cross beef, but this isn't the case. When genetics and rearing conditions are right then it can be just as good." And genetics and colostrum intake are crucial to getting a good beef animal from the dairy herd, says Somerset dairy farmer David Bown, who is selling about 120 dairy beef calves a year,at four weeks old.