The numbers of cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered in the UK were released by Defra today. Cattle slaughterings are up 2% to 163,000 head, sheep 15% lower at 773,000 and pigs were 4% higher at 704,000 in February 2010 than they were in February 2009.
The monthly volumes of meat produced UK show that 71,000 tonnes of beef, 18,000 tonnes of mutton and lamb and 58,000 tonnes of pigmeat were produced in the UK in February. These statistics refer to meat produced for human consumption in the UK but includes livestock imported into the UK for slaughter.
In addition to all the 'clean' meat slaughterings, 43,000 tonnes of meat was produced from cows and adult bulls, 4,000 tonnes from calves, 136,000 tonnes of ewe and ram meat and 18,000 tonnes of boar and sow meat was produced.
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