BBCNEWS BBC News December 5, 2021 02:22:00
Many smaller slaughterhouses struggle to stay open and for some farmers, the lack of abattoirs able to slaughter and butcher their animals is undermining their business and supplying direct to consumers is often far more profitable. to give you an overview idea, it might be three times as much income. now, it depends who i sell to, how i sell the carcass, so parts of it going to a restaurant would earn you less than all of it going to consumers. i've become the price—maker as opposed to the price—taker. in the 1970s, there were just over 1,100 red meat abattoirs in the uk. last year, that ...