Hundreds of thousands of calves are transported over long distances per year. Male calves are of no value to the dairy industry. This is because the local modern high-performance dairy breeds have been bred for high milk production only. In order to give milk, a female cow must give birth to a calf. To keep the milk yield as high as possible, the cow is inseminated every year. The male calves that are born are suitable for fattening to a limited extent because they gain little weight and thus produce very little meat. These calves, but also some female calves that are not used for breeding on the dairy farm, are collected by a cattle trader. The trader transports them over long distances abroad, for example to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain or Italy, countries that specialised in calf fattening. The calves that are brought to Spain and Italy suffer terribly on transport. Being only 2 weeks of age, they have to suffer from hunger and thirst for more than 30 hours. It is not possible to feed them milk on the trucks. Not even the water supply works properly because the trucks are not equipped for young animals. A transport of 19 hours in one go is allowed. But the animals are often brought to assembly centres before the transport, so they are left hungry beforehand. Many calves get sick after the long ordeal, animals die again and again during and especially days after the hellish journeys. In Spain, the calves are then fattened and in some cases transported on another hellish journey to third countries such as Morocco etc. to be slaughtered there in an extremely cruel way.