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 killing and processing the animal.

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 ...

A guide to butchering meat from a great homesteading book about self-sufficient farming includes tips on butchering beef, butchering sheep and butchering poultry. Originally published as "Farming ...