If you eat red meat, you can take one more step toward independence by butchering beef at home. Learn how to butcher a cow yourself, including humanely killing and processing the animal. A lot of ...

Jason Yang, butcher at Fleishers Craft Butchery, breaks down half a cow into all the cuts you'd see at your local butcher shop. There are four sections Yang moves through: 1. ROUND: bottom round roast ...

This excerpt on butchering meat was taken from the homesteading book Farming for Self-Sufficiency: Independence on a 5-Acre Farm by John and Sally Seymour Copyright ...