Every week 15,000 animals from British farms are sent abroad for slaughter. It's a trade which welfare organisations deplore but which the Government insists must go on to satisfy the Treaty of Rome and European taste for freshly-killed meat. Should meat go overseas on the hoof or on the hook?
Plus the weather for the countryside at 12.55pm with John Kettley. Producer IAN BREACH
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill