Re: The local butchery

Sheldon wrote:
ChattyCathy <cathy1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I went into a local butchery today and noticed that the butcher was
female - and it suddenly struck me that I'd never seen female butcher
before. I've seen plenty of female assistants, who help pack the cuts of
meat and serve the customers etc., but this was the first time I've
noticed a female butcher turning a nice big pig into recognizable cuts
of pork...

Have you ever noticed that most butchers are male? Or is just me?

What you're seeing at your local market are "meat cutters", not
butchers (butchers break down the entire carcass). Typically butchers
have always been males (usually large males) because butchering
requires great physical strength. Nowadays markets only receive
primal sections, they've already been butchered (they're not very
large chunks and typically don't even contain bone) and are now ready
for the meat cutter, a much less physically demanding job... I see no
reason that the typical female can't do a meat cutters job... I often
see females at stupidmarket meat departments cutting meat.

I don't think thats an absolute. The local Italian market where we buy most of our food does butchering of at least pigs.
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