I wish my dad was a butcher so we would get good cuts of meat for dinner!
My grandfather was a butcher. He used to slaughter animals and dress their flesh for sale during the 1950's.
Did it bother him at all to be part of the slaughter?  I live near a slaughter house and sometimes the smell.. furnaces for carcases.  Ugh.
It didn't bother him. He enjoyed prepareing meand and poultry for people.
I bet you had choice cuts from him, and there was actually a filet on your tbone steaks!
T-bone steak
The T-bone and porterhouse are steaks of beef cut from the short loin (called the sirloin in Commonwealth countries and Ireland). Both steaks include a "T"-shaped lumbar vertebrae with sections of abdominal internal oblique muscle on each side. Porterhouse steaks are cut from the rear end of the short loin and thus include more tenderloin steak, along with (on the other side of the bone) a large strip steak. T-bone steaks are cut closer to the front, and contain a smaller
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed.
Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock; its practitioners formed guilds in England as