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all-round butcher
A professional who performs slaughtering and butchering tasks in small slaughtering and meat packing establishment, using cutting tools, such as cleaver, knife, and saw. Respnsibilities include:
- Stuns animals prior to slaughtering.
- Shackles hind legs of animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs, to raise them for slaughtering or skinning.
- Severs jugular vein to drain blood and facilitate slaughtering.
- Trims head meat and otherwise severs or removes parts of animal heads or skulls.
- Saws, splits, or scribes slaughtered animals to reduce carcass.
- Slits open, eviscerates, and trims carcasses of slaughtered animals.
- Cuts, trims, skins, sorts, and washes viscera of slaughtered animals to separate edible portions from offal.
- Washes carcasses.
- Wraps muslin cloth about dressed animal carcasses or sides to enhance appearance and protect meat.
- Shaves hog carcasses.
- Trims and cleans animal hides, using knife.
- Cuts bones from standard cuts of meat, such as chucks, hams, loins, plates, rounds, and shanks, to prepare meat for marketing.
- Examines, weighs, and sorts fresh pork cuts.
- Skins sections of animals or whole animals, such as cattle, sheep, and hogs.
- Works in small slaughtering and meat packing establishment.
- May prepare meats for smoking.
- May cut and wrap meat.
- May salt (cure) and trim hides.
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