Originally from: David
                        
"So, between 1985 and 2000, the number of abattoirs fell from 1,022 to 387. Over the same period, the average number of animals killed each week has risen from 13,313 per abattoir to 32,729. The consequences of this policy have been made evident by the course of the latest outbreak of foot-and-mouth. When the first case was identified, the focus of investigation fell on Cheale Meats in Little Warley, Essex. It has since been established that more than 600 farms, from as far away as Northumberland, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Northern Ireland and Scotland, send their meat there".

Thats interesting Colleen. If 387 slaughter houses kill 32729 animals per week, that is 12.666 million animals per week. If they kill for 50 weeks of the year the total is 633.5m animals per year. Can someone check out my arithmetic incase I have got the decimal point in the wrong place because I would have thought the figure would be about 60m per year. If indeed the figure is 633m, we do have the capacity to export slauhtered meat.

David

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