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Originally Posted by senior citizen
Ayup, however, I'm no expert but doesn't the butcher have to use some type of cleaver to cut through the bones. So much of the meat comes already packaged but some butcher someplace is using an electric gizmo which might be similar to a chainsaw. Any retired butchers out there?
I'm guessing again as I'm no hunter myself, but I think the deer in Vermont are taken home and hung up to age before they butcher them. Anyone know ? Some do it themselves and it wouldn't surprise me at all in the State of Vermont if the guys did use a chainsaw. Others took it to a butcher and I have no idea what they use to cut through the bones and carcass,etc.
My husband always defended his hunting with the fact that we all eat beef and chicken and other forms of meat that were once walking around before being killed. But that is another subject entirely.
The article in the paper was on trophy hunting not on the need for food.
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In the late 60’s I could not get a job in my line of work so my uncle got me a job in a meat packing plant (AP) we cut 500 to 750 sides of beef a day. The side comes in on an overhead track it is put on a band saw and the first cut is made, the two pieces are put on a conveyer belt, a man on one side grabs ever like piece and puts it on another band saw. Those two pieces go back on the conveyer built. At this point four different cuts are on the conveyer. I do no remember how many saws were on the line. Meat cleavers and chain saws were not used. The beef was not killed at the plant. Butchers volunteered to cut pork on overtime it was not mandatory to cut pork. The butchers wear stainless steel mesh gloves but still a sharp pork bone can pass thru the mesh and pierce the skin resulting in a local shin infection ever time it happens. I lifted 70 to 120 pounds of meat every 30 to 45 seconds. I collected and weighted scraps at the end of the conveyor, The meat was used for hamburger. After 90 days the union head said I had to join the union, my reply you are nuts if you think I would pay you to work in this place. Goodbye. Oh the temp in the cutting room was 32.5 degrees.
