Animals: Exports
(asked on 17th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many animals have been exported abroad for slaughter in each of the past five years; and how many of those animals they estimate were slaughtered without being pre-stunned.
According to the EU Trade Control and Expert System (TRACEs) database, the total volume of trade in live exports for slaughter to the EU from the UK from 2014 to 2016 was:
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Cattle | 3,982 | 7,673 | 10,464 |
Sheep | 361,769 | 321,343 | 385,099 |
Pigs | 10,396 | 12,772 | 8,916 |
Total | 378,161 | 343,803 | 406,495 |
The majority of these animals are exported from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland across the land border. The number of animals that were not stunned before slaughter is unknown.