# Butchery & meat


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> "Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat." - Michael Pollan

 


## Further resources

- [Compassion in World Farming](https://www.ciwf.org.uk/) - against factory farming
- [Humane Slaughter Association](https://www.hsa.org.uk/) - against factory farming
- [Meat charts](https://www.virtualweberbullet.com/meat-charts-beef-pork-lamb-goat/) - charts of cuts of meat - beef, pork, lamb, goat
- [Traditional Breeds Meat Marketing](https://www.tbmm.co.uk/) - traditional breeds and independent butchers
- [Q Guild Butcher](https://qguild.co.uk/) - representing independent butchers
- [Mother Earth News](https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/butcher-a-pig-zmaz72soztak/#axzz2kGoDSISr) - how to butcher a pig
- [Small-scale sausage production](https://www.fao.org/4/x6556e/X6556E00.htm#TOC) - huge resource


## Related topics

- [Low-impact food & drink](lifo:food)
- [Keeping livestock](livs:livestock)
- [Sheep](shep:sheep)
- [Goats](goat:goats)
- [Game / wild meat](game:game)
- [Pigs](pigs:pigs)
- [Chickens](chic:chickens)
- [Food smoking](fosm:food_smoking)
- [Turkeys](trky:turkeys)
- [Cattle](catl:cattle)
- [Guinea fowl](guin:guinea_fowl)
- [Ducks](duck:ducks)
- [Quail](qual:quail)
- [Geese](gees:geese)

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