Dairy Update - Bannister Downs and Sunnydale Milk in Glass!

It still makes me smile to think of walking into Mr Fresh at Carine and spotting the glass bottles of milk in the dairy cabinet at the end of the aisle.  I actually smiled at the time and am still smiling while typing this up!  Following on from my 'Ethical Dairy' post, I've just today bought home these...

Ethical Dairy - How do YOU choose?

Unfortunately, my knowledge of this has only been relatively recent.  I thought that unlike caged hens, surely dairy cows had it better.  Well, they do, but they don't depending on which farm and how you look at it.  Cows have to be pregnant or feeding a calf, to keep making milk.  So cows are continually impregnated.  So they don't get a rest and then what to do if the calves are boys?  Ship them off to market... well, ok because that's how most commercial meat comes about but exactly how - and at what age?  And what are the rules that make it ethical and are they adhered to?

Do they go at only a few days old, frightened and very vulnerable?  Just a few days born, with no feed and no assurance of gentle or ethical treatment?