My father used to be a butcher. How about you?
No, my father wasn't a butcher.  He was a candlestick maker.  Was being a butcher difficult for your father?
Well, he seemed to enjoy it I suppose. Butchers slaughter animals and sell their meat
We have meat processing places here who sell their meat, but at the grocery stores I don't think the butchers slaughter the moo cows.  That would be emotionally hard!
Yea, but you get used to it over time. Not that it's a good thing, but it happens. Butchers usually prepare standard cuts of meat for sale in shops or food establishments
So did you learn the types of cuts of meat from your dad?
far back as 1272. Today, many jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers. Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship followed by the option of becoming a master butcher.
Duties.
Butchery is a traditional line of work. In the industrialized world, slaughterhouses use butchers to slaughter the animals, performing one or a few of the steps repeatedly as specialists on a semiautomated disassembly line. The steps include stunning (rendering the animal incapacitated), exsanguination (severing the carotid or brachial arteries to facilitate blood removal),
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