Meat — facts and figures
In the year 2000 the total number of European livestock
was 118 million livestock units (including 300
million poultry, equivalent to 15 million livestock
units — 13 % of the total) (5). Grazing livestock,
(ruminants and equidae), at 72 million, made up nearly
two thirds (61 %). 59 million cattle alone accounted
for half of the livestock. Pigs, at 30 million, represented
a quarter. Beef and veal, pigmeat, poultrymeat, and
sheepmeat/goatmeat are the major types of meat produced
in the EU (though others such as horsemeat and
rabbit are also important in some countries).