date:Jun 11, 2014
At the heart of Farmers For Actions protest at processor ABPs Shrewsbury factory were fears the UK was flooded with foreign beef, particularly from Poland.
To work out if Polish beef is really a problem for the UK, and how big an issue imports are more widely, we need to look at where the beef on our supermarket shelves comes from.
How much is imported?
In 2013, the UK raised and slaughtered 842,000t of beef.
About one-seventh of that was exported and 306,000t was imported, taking the tota