In the episode, Stan and the boys are horrified when they find what veal is made from, and then kidnap all the baby cows from a local ranch in South Park.
Ms. Choksondik's fourth grade class goes on a field trip to a farm, where they discover that veal is made of baby cows.
He gets the FDA to change the term for veal to "little tortured baby cow", and negotiates for a cattle truck driven by Michael Dorn.
In the DVD commentary, the creators said they wanted to balance their message of not eating baby animals, but at the same time not advocating people to abstain from meat consumption altogether.
He is portrayed in this episode wearing a sweatshirt which bears the logo of Pasadena City College, his real-life alma mater.
[3] The negotiations over the phone, the cattle truck, and most of this episode (such as the part when Cartman was standing outside the front door ordering that the men step back) is a parody of the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.
"Fun with Veal," along with the sixteen other episodes from South Park: the Complete Sixth Season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on October 11, 2005.