What is another word for butchering?

Pronunciation: [bˈʊt͡ʃəɹɪŋ] (IPA)

The term butchering is often associated with the process of slaughtering animals for meat production. However, there are several synonyms that can be used instead of butchering. Some of these synonyms include: processing, cutting, carving, preparing, or even harvesting. The word processing refers to the overall process of preparing meat, whereas carving and cutting are more specific to the actual act of sectioning the animal into usable portions. Preparing is a broader term that can also refer to marinating, seasoning, and cooking the meat. Harvesting is a term that can be used for animals that are hunted, rather than being raised for meat production.

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Usage examples for Butchering

The great variety of food crops which ripen in rotation make the cost of hog-raising very little-possibly two cents a pound will cover the cost of raising, butchering, and packing.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Boots and tending bar I should think would be wakeful, but I didn't suppose butchering and keeping hotel necessitated late hours.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith
When he finds a man butchering, he sits down on a robe, fills his pipe, prays for those present, and smokes with them.
"The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians"
Clark Wissler

Famous quotes with Butchering

  • Through butchering, animals become absent referents. Animals in name and body are made absent for meat to exist. Animals' lives precede and enable the existence of meat. If animals are alive they cannot be meat. Thus a dead body replaces the live animal. Without animals there would be no meat eating, yet they are absent from the act of eating meat because they have been transformed into food.
    Carol J. Adams
  • It is not, of course, because of any selfish motive that he has invaded a helpless country, bombing, burning and gassing both combatants and non-combatants by the thousands.Civilized nations never, never have selfish motives for butchering, raping and looting; only horrid barbarians have those.
    Robert E. Howard
  • I have just this moment heard from the front — there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen. O Mother, to think that we are to have here soon what I have seen so many times, the awful loads and trains and boatloads of poor, bloody, and pale and wounded young men again — for that is what we certainly will, and before very long. I see all the little signs, getting ready in the hospitals, etc.; it is dreadful when one thinks about it. I sometimes think over the sights I have myself seen: the arrival of the wounded after a battle, and the scenes on the field, too, and I can hardly believe my own recollections. What an awful thing war is! Mother, it seems not men but a lot of devils and butchers butchering each other.
    Walt Whitman
  • The butchering of harmless animals cannot fail to produce much of that spirit of insane and hideous exultation in which news of a victory is related altho' purchased by the massacre of a hundred thousand men. If the use of animal food be in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice . It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Hmm...hmm. A stag hunt. To what elaborate lengths the equestrian classes go in order to draw out the simple business of butchering venison.
    Avram Davidson

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