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Rose Veal Chop – Approx 275g

Treway Rose Veal Chops are an absolute belter! They are cut on the bone from the sirloin.

To cook simply pan fry in butter.

These have been our favourite cut to try so far!

The Story Of Veal At Treway Farm

Our friend Ben and his family run a dairy farm near Newquay and the calf wastage he was seeing from his farm just didn’t sit right with him. Last summer we came up with the idea of giving ‘Rose Veal’ a go…..
Tom’s beautiful dairy cows are Jersey’s who produce the creamiest richest milk but are very small in size. Pedigree female calves are kept and eventually join the family’s milking herd. The males and cross bred calves are fundamentally worthless when sold at the livestock market due to their jersey breeding. Commercial beef farmers aren’t interested in purchasing them as the size they will grow to doesn’t make them a viable option. Unfortunately this results in many being sold straight to slaughter at 6 weeks. This is what we refer to as ‘calf wastage’.

This is an issue unseen by the public and one we feel is extremely important to highlight. In a world where we are being more conscious about what we eat and the environmental impact of food production. I would argue that if we want to continue consuming dairy we need to start consuming rose veal.

The calves arrived with us last summer at about 2 weeks old and the children absolutely loved caring for them and particularly feeding them their milk. Until they all got a bit bigger and more boistorious when it all got a bit chaotic!

Once the calves were weaned off milk we turned them out in the fields until late autumn.

This is a far cry from the horror images of ‘white veal’ production when calves would be kept in crates (banned in the 90’s in the UK and 2006 in the EU) and only fed milk resulting in the pale meat colour.

Over winter the calves were moved into the barn in our yard and have been a hit with all visitors to the farm!

This is our first time producing rose veal and to say we are thrilled with the meat would be an understatement. It is a testament to farming with care and compassion.

Veal has a delicate beefy flavour and a buttery soft texture.