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A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed. [ 2 ] Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock ; its practitioners formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. [ 3 ]
Butcher is a common family name in England but it may have French origins. It was originally an occupational surname used to identify a person who worked as a butcher . The name derived from the Old English word boucher or the Old French word bouchier .
Butcher (or Butcher's) Inlet, on which Cossack, Western Australia is situated Butcher Island , off the coast of Mumbai, India Butcher Nunatak , Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
A butcher specializes in the preparation and sale of meat. Butchers sometimes operate specialized shops selling meat, known as butcher's shops, meat stores, meat markets or butcheries. Meat may also be sold in supermarkets, grocery stores, and fish markets, and these shops may employ a butcher.
Its literal meaning is "butcher". Other German family names with the same meaning include Metzger, Mezger, Fleischman, and Fleischmann. People.
Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock.It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. [4]
Fleischman and Fleischmann are common family names which mean "butcher" in German. Fleišman is the Czech spelling. Other names which have the same meaning include Fleischer, Boucher, Metzger and Resnick. Names with similar or derivative meanings include Schechter and Schlechter, which mean "slaughterer".
A meat cutter at work. A meat cutter prepares primal cuts into a variety of smaller cuts intended for sale in a retail environment. The duties of a meat cutter largely overlap those of the butcher, but butchers tend to specialize in pre-sale processing (i.e., reducing carcasses to primal cuts), whereas meat cutters further cut and process the primal cuts per individual customer request.