Barn fire kills veal calves

[Catherine]

This is a sad story. A barn fire killed 110 veal calves.

Veal calves are usually confined in small pens, so they would have had no chance of escape. We can only hope that they were overcome by smoke and died quickly.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/110-animals-...-1.2512189

I noticed that very little was made of the loss of life in the news broadcast. The barn had no sprinkler system. Also hay was stored above the calves. When a fire broke out it spread and was not easy to put out. There was no provision made for rescuing calves. The fact that they all died means there was no rescue attempt.

Barn fires are nasty. The animals are confined in small spaces with no hope of escape, surrounded by highly flammable material.
There are reports of deadly barn fires all the time. We are doing something wrong in the way we keep animals in barns. It is not good enough that the insurance will pay for it. What about the 110 little calves that died in fear.