How many animals are killed?
The total number of animals killed in British slaughterhouses in 2003 was approximately 900 million.
This included 9.35 million pigs, nearly 15 million sheep, 28 million turkeys, 20 million ducks, over 850 million chickens and 2.25 million cattle.
This equates to 2.4 million animals slaughtered every day; 100,000 an hour; 1600 per minute and 26 every second
