Additionally depressing is that all of these calves were separated from their mothers at birth, as will all of their offspring. When a calf get it's mothers milk, humans do not.
They're not actually separated at birth, because if you do that their immune system doesn't get seeded by their mother's milk, and they end up dying of horrible diseases.
Actually they are (within a matter of hours) and the bulk of colostrum a calf gets in its first days comes in frozen form, from other cows.
If a calf is allowed to suckle as nature intended it will learn to like the process (and the milk) and take longer to get onto a dry feed diet. In a commercial operation there's no time for that.
