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Meat general |
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| Compassion in World Farming | working to stop factory farming and the export of live animals |
| George Monbiot | strong meat: why he changed his view on eating meat |
| Meat Matters | information on meat and health |
| Meat Training Council | charity providing information, NVQs and careers advice |
| National Federation of Meat & Food Traders | representing and offering business support to small, independent butchers |
| Q Guild of Butchers | representing independent butchers and meat retailers |
| Traditional Breeds Meat Marketing | promoting quality meat from British traditional breeds |
Meat cookery |
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| All Recipes | over 11,000 meat recipes |
| BBC Food | beef recipes |
| BBC Food | lamb recipes |
| BBC Food | pork recipes |
| BBC Food | offal recipes |
| Big Bang | bangers and mash restaurant – from local suppliers, Oxford |
| The British Barbecue Pit | all about BBQs, plus good information on making sausages |
| The Cook’s Thesaurus | diagrams and photographs of different meat cuts |
| English Spice Index | directory of squillions of spices |
Livestock slaughter |
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| Accidental Smallholder | getting pigs slaughtered at a small abattoir |
| Association of Independent Meat Suppliers | representing small, independent abattoirs |
| FAO | detailed info on animal slaughter |
| FAO | manual for the slaughter of small ruminants in developing countries |
| FAO | slaughterhouse cleaning and sanitation |
| FAO | guidelines for slaughtering, meat cutting and further processing |
| Food Standards Agency | home slaughter of livestock: a guide to the law |
| GOV.UK | slaughtering of livestock: welfare regulations |
| Humane Slaughter Association | group working for the humane treatment of animals during transport and slaughter |
| Office of Public Sector Information | the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 – includes home slaughter |
| RSPCA | factfile on the slaughter of livestock |
| WikiHow | detailed info on the slaughter of cattle |
Butchery |
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| Food Standards Agency | information on food safety for butchers |
| Guardian | article on butchering your own meat |
| Guardian | step-by-step guide to butchering a lamb carcass |
| Instructables | how to butcher a lamb |
| Lamb Basic Cuts | diagram of the various lamb cuts on a carcass |
| Meat Charts | diagrams of the various beef, pork, lamb and goat cuts on a carcass |
| Mother Earth News | how to butcher a pig |
| Pig Processing FAQ | information on slaughtering, butchering and preparingpigs |
| Pork Cuts | diagram of the various pork cuts on a carcass |
| Quality Meat Scotland | cutting guide: fantastic resource – series of videos showing how to deal with various cuts of beef, lamb and pork |
| Self-sufficient Home Acre | how to butcher a chicken |
| WikiHow | how to butcher cattle |
| Wikipedia | category: cuts of meat – beef, lamb and pork, with links to more information about each cut |
Local butchers |
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| The Art of Manliness | interview with an independent butcher about his job |
| Butchers Online | local butchers by county |
| Find a Butcher | county-by-county directory of family butchers |
| Huffington Post | family butchers see sales rise after horsemeat scandal hits supermarkets |
| Jonathon Davies | article: taking a stand to use your local butcher |
| Q Guild of Butchers | find independent butchers by postcode |
| Scottish Craft Butchers | information, and listing of small craft butchers in Scotland |
Sausages & charcuterie |
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| BBC Food | charcuterie recipes |
| BBC Food | sausage recipes |
| The British Barbecue Pit | all about BBQs, plus good information on making sausages |
| Eye on Spain | how to make chorizo |
| Food & Agriculture Organisation (UN) | how to set up a small sausage-making business – huge resource |
| Honest Food | charcuterie recipes |
| Huffington Post | guide to salumi – the cured meats of Italy |
| The Kitchn | Speck to Salami: a quick guide to cured meats |
| North Dakota State University | the art and practice of sausage-making |
| NorthWest Smoking | incredible list of recipes for possibly every type of sausage in the world |
| Salumi Italiani | information on salamis and Italian cured meats (in English) |
| SausageFans | information and listing of small home-reared meat sausage shops in the UK – county by county |
| Sausage Making Know-How | sausage-making FAQ |
| SausageMania | information on making gourmet sausages |
| Sonoma Mountain Sausages | free information and recipes for sausage-making |
| US Dept. of Agriculture (pdf) | pdf course manual on safe practices for sausage production |
Dried meat |
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| FAO | simple techniques for the production of dried meat |
| Popular Mechanics | make your own biltong drier |
| River Cottage | how to make biltong |
| Scouts South Africa | how to make biltong |
| US Dept. of Agriculture (pdf) | 15-page technical pdf on the preservation of dried meat products |
| WikiHow | how to make beef jerky |
