The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement

The dairy industry uses cows to make two things: milk and baby cows. The milk, we know its fate. But what of those 9 million babies born to dairy cows each year? 

Many get carted off — sometimes over great distances, typically at not more than a few days old — to live out their calfhoods at a place like Grimmius Cattle Company.  

Spanning hundreds of acres across its two main locations in Tulare County and Kings County, California, in the heart of California’s Central Valley, Grimmius...