1. The average British family spends £12.50 a week on meats and meat preparations and £12.60 on alcoholic drinks and tobacco products.
2. There are almost 19 billion chickens on Earth; they outnumber humans by almost three to one. We eat about 100 million tons of poultry every year.
3. In Brunei, there are 40 times as many chickens as people.
4. New Zealand has 7.5 sheep and 2.3 cows for every person in the country.
5. Uruguay, with 3.7 cows per person, is the only country that beats New Zealand on cows.
6. On February 18, 1930 in St Louis, Elm Farm Ollie was the first cow to fly in an aeroplane and Elsworth W Bunce was first to milk a flying cow.
7. The average American eats 88.3kg of meat a year; the average Briton eats 44.9kg.
8. In Denmark, there are more than twice as many pigs as people.
9. The word ‘carnival’ originally meant ‘a farewell to meat’ referring to the Christian tradition of giving up meat during Lent.
10. “Heaven sends us good meat but the Devil sends cooks,” (David Garrick, actor, 1717-79)
