“A slaughterhouse closes” every month, warn meat professionals. Out of 230 slaughterhouses in France, those which have closed are mainly "small and medium-sized slaughterhouses" stunned by the surge in their production costs.
In seven years, the number of cows has fallen by almost a million head to around seven million. In the year 2023 alone, "we lost (...) two million pigs, which is enormous, which represents [the volume processed by] a big, big French slaughterhouse"