The Fate of Male and Female Calves in the Dairy Industry 🐄💔 In the dairy industry, both male and female calves suffer — their lives decided the moment they are born. Male calves are often abandoned, sold, or sent into slaughter because they can’t produce milk. Female calves are kept only to repeat the same cycle of impregnation, separation, exploitation, and slaughter. And at the core of it all lies one brutal truth: We have no right to separate a mother from her child. No mother gives birth f