I live in the Muslim district in Jinan china, they do in about 10 cows a night about 400 meters from my front doorstep.... to lazy to get out of bed and take a photo and post it.

Seriously it's midnight and I don't want to be stared at with questions about Laowai.

I don't have a problem with this. Especially since the butchering of animals leads to the greatest moments of the human experience.

DjangoStonereaver: I once happened upon my up the street neighbor skinning a woodchuck by the side of
the road. I don't live in a particularly rural area, so this amazingly rednecky behavior
was a bit off putting, but he's a good neighbor otherwise.

My friend has a much different opinion of that guy.

Granted, my friend is a woodchuck, but still.

He could've been a bit more sensitive about killing it in town, but I see no problem with butchering the meat in the driveway. I've butchered deer in my back yard.

We have at least one grocery store within driving distance that slaughters their own chickens.

Our neighbors didn't mind when we cleaned an elk carcass in our front yard before going to the processor (the gut pile was back at the hunting site of course).

/The coyotes liked us that night.
//Made sure little kids couldn't see the head.
///Muzzleloader opening weekend! Whee! No husband!!!

StaleCoffee: Don't know much about butchering, but... don't you have to drain blood or something before you start sawing bits off?

I think that's the kosher way to do it. There are some methods where you don't even need to remove the innards if you do it right away.

StaleCoffee: Don't know much about butchering, but... don't you have to drain blood or something before you start sawing bits off?

I'm not sure either. Hey! Let's ask this guy! Excuse me..sir? We have a question.

I always wonder how different things are treated in diferent parts of the country.
In the article you see how they ponder carefully what charges could be presented.

Even the Weenerser below suggests that no charges at all should be made.
The guy killed and butchered a freaking COW in a residential driveway.!

If I were to do this here in Miami I would probably be sent to Guantanamo!

I've helped butcher deer in the garage. Not exactly in the driveway though, but the door was open, and the neighbor kids all came round to watch.

How dare someone do something on their own property that I don't like!

Dang! pwned by the filter: I meant a "post below in a very favorable position"

Once, I was living in Layton, UT (just south of Ogden) when I heard a gunshot very, very close (about 60 feet max) to the apartment I was living in at the time (1996). I walked over to the side of the complex where I heard the shot and sure enough, they had just shot a steer and were starting the process of butchering the animal. I quickly went out to Starbucks, grabbed the biggest coffee they had and raced back to the railing and watched for the next 40 minutes or so as they turned this steer into food and then they proceeded to do it to another one.

The poor butcher guys kept looking up at me (probably thinking I was going to say something) but I just kept waving and nodding my head in approval. I was very impressed by the speed, cleanliness and professional way they did their work. I had never seen this before and it was very cool to say the least. Become a damn vegan if you don't want to know where your food comes from.


/// Loved Utah.

offmymeds

You leave Ed out of this, please.

pute kisses like a man: I don't have a problem with this. Especially since the butchering of animals leads to the greatest moments of the human experience.

It's true, not that I enjoy killing animals but I grew up on a small farm and my family would raise a cow and pig or two every year and butcher in the fall. A few relatives would come over and help with the processing and then we would divide up all of the different cuts. My grandfather had a smokehouse to cure the fresh sausage and bacon, I still crave that stuff today and theres nothing you could buy in a store that would even come close.

Of course we lived in a rural area at the time, I'm sure butchering a cow in the middle of your driveway in cookie cutterville would cause a little commotion with the HOA and traumatize the snowflakes who think meat comes from a plastic package in the grocery store

probably had less chance of picking up e.coli in his driveway than with a meat processing facility...

My brother was a butcher, weirdest thing I ever saw was cleaning a Black Bear.

hmmm. Let's assume this is a standard middle class suburb and let's pretend he did not fire a weapon inside the city limits. There are so many questions:
where did all the blood go? down the gutter and into the storm drain? Why was he not cited for toxic dumping? The entire neighborhood is going to smell like a slaughter house for months. The concrete of his driveway will be thick with animal fat. Again, this must be scrubbed down and washed into the storm drain where it will congeal along the sides of the pipes to rot, the smell wafting up out of every grate and manhole for miles.
A butchered cow yields a whole lot of waste. Where was he planning on disposing of the skull, legs, intestines, and other inedible internal organs? That's a couple hundred pounds of stinking, slippery, greasy offal. The four stomachs, full of grass and feed would fill the trash bin all by themselves. You better hope trash pick up day is tomorrow because that shiat starts stinking in the heat. Hopefully the garbage man doesn't notice what is inside, because they won't pick it up if they see it.
then there is the aging of the beef. Does this guy have a walk in cooler out back to hang the carcass for a while? Beef has to "age" otherwise it is inedible. I suppose if it is cold during the day, you could hang it in the shade but here again, the neighbors might have a problem with that.
He broke about a thousand health and safety codes. The cop couldn't think of one thing to cite him for? Really?
///you know, if you buy a cow, the local butcher will be more than happy to kill, butcher and age it for you for a small fee. Well worth it.

Cyno01: What, if it's for personal use the slaughter area doesn't need to be inspected or anything, unless the guy owns a butcher shop or restaurant and is going to sell it there I fail to see a problem with this.

This... however....

darkvstar: where did all the blood go? down the gutter and into the storm drain? Why was he not cited for toxic dumping?

this is my main concern.

/buys beevs by the quarter, they come cut/aged/ wrapped from the federally approved processing facility 30 min from my house.
//'cept "hangar" steak, it doesn't age (though it's usually just ground up)

StaleCoffee: quadcam: pute kisses like a man: I don't have a problem with this. Especially since the butchering of animals leads to the greatest moments of the human experience.

It's true, not that I enjoy killing animals but I grew up on a small farm and my family would raise a cow and pig or two every year and butcher in the fall. A few relatives would come over and help with the processing and then we would divide up all of the different cuts. My grandfather had a smokehouse to cure the fresh sausage and bacon, I still crave that stuff today and theres nothing you could buy in a store that would even come close.

Of course we lived in a rural area at the time, I'm sure butchering a cow in the middle of your driveway in cookie cutterville would cause a little commotion with the HOA and traumatize the snowflakes who think meat comes from a plastic package in the grocery store

But are the lambs still screaming?

The lambs are still screaming ...but the moo's are gone

"The caller then reported hearing the cow's audible mooing, followed by what sounded like a gunshot, said Police Lt. Troy Burnett. Then the mooing stopped."

My father did this every year, though usually in the winter and we lived on a farm. But I can vividly remember a skinned cow carcass hanging from the rafters in the garage.

darkvstar:
where did all the blood go? down the gutter and into the storm drain? Why was he not cited for toxic dumping? The entire neighborhood is going to smell like a slaughter house for months. The concrete of his driveway will be thick with animal fat. Again, this must be scrubbed down and washed into the storm drain where it will congeal along the sides of the pipes to rot, the smell wafting up out of every grate and manhole for miles.
A butchered cow yields a whole lot of waste. Where was he planning on disposing of the skull, legs, intestines, and other inedible internal organs? That's a couple hundred pounds of stinking, slippery, greasy offal.

Just to address this, no it won't. We're talking about one cow. The scavenger mammals will be out in force that night: skunks, coyotes, foxes, that live in that suburb and they will lick that driveway clean. The bones and blood will still be an issue, but bones and skin can go in the trash, and blood can be captured in buckets and put down your kitchen drain, which goes to the waste treatment plant.

I know people who have home butchering rooms for their hunting kills. They still field dress and bring home (so the gut pile and majority of blood stays out for the other animals) but they still have to deal with the bones and additional run off. As long as you plan ahead and don't attempt to sell the meat, it's fine. Now the fact this guy was dumb enough to bring it home alive and shoot it there, he probably doesn't have any of the proper equipment.

quadcam: pute kisses like a man: I don't have a problem with this. Especially since the butchering of animals leads to the greatest moments of the human experience.

It's true, not that I enjoy killing animals but I grew up on a small farm and my family would raise a cow and pig or two every year and butcher in the fall. A few relatives would come over and help with the processing and then we would divide up all of the different cuts. My grandfather had a smokehouse to cure the fresh sausage and bacon, I still crave that stuff today and theres nothing you could buy in a store that would even come close.

Of course we lived in a rural area at the time, I'm sure butchering a cow in the middle of your driveway in cookie cutterville would cause a little commotion with the HOA and traumatize the snowflakes who think meat comes from a plastic package in the grocery store

yeah, this is what I meant. Not the senseless killing of animals. but, when a whole family or small community comes together to process the animal, each attending to some part. And celebrating the significance of the animal by having a party. This guy was probably killing this cow for a celebration or something, like a wedding. Or, what would be really funny, for an upcoming block party.

If any children had witnessed the butchering, and become upset, that could possibly constitute disorderly conduct, said Burnett and Mike Junk, Ogden city's senior prosecutor.

Is "anything that may possibly upset me" a crime in most districts, or does it only apply if it's "for the childrens!"

If just witnessing things that piss me off is a crime the lines at the supermarket are going to be a whole lot farking shorter, and my drive to work a whole lot more pleasant.

"It boggles my mind," Burnett said. "It's not illegal, but it's absurd that people would think slaughtering a cow in their driveway is OK. Maybe on the west side of the county on one of the farms. But in the middle of a high density residential area?"

No, what boggles the mind is that you don't know how food works, Nancy.

darkvstar: hmmm. Let's assume this is a standard middle class suburb and let's pretend he did not fire a weapon inside the city limits. There are so many questions:
where did all the blood go? down the gutter and into the storm drain? Why was he not cited for toxic dumping? The entire neighborhood is going to smell like a slaughter house for months. The concrete of his driveway will be thick with animal fat. Again, this must be scrubbed down and washed into the storm drain where it will congeal along the sides of the pipes to rot, the smell wafting up out of every grate and manhole for miles.
A butchered cow yields a whole lot of waste. Where was he planning on disposing of the skull, legs, intestines, and other inedible internal organs? That's a couple hundred pounds of stinking, slippery, greasy offal. The four stomachs, full of grass and feed would fill the trash bin all by themselves. You better hope trash pick up day is tomorrow because that shiat starts stinking in the heat. Hopefully the garbage man doesn't notice what is inside, because they won't pick it up if they see it.
then there is the aging of the beef. Does this guy have a walk in cooler out back to hang the carcass for a while? Beef has to "age" otherwise it is inedible. I suppose if it is cold during the day, you could hang it in the shade but here again, the neighbors might have a problem with that.
He broke about a thousand health and safety codes. The cop couldn't think of one thing to cite him for? Really?
///you know, if you buy a cow, the local butcher will be more than happy to kill, butcher and age it for you for a small fee. Well worth it.

Why do you assume he's wasting all that food? You're suggesting he threw out edible animal parts such as blood, tongue, offal, brains, bones... all material edible to humans.

/approves

thelordofcheese: You're suggesting he threw out edible animal parts such as blood, tongue, offal, brains, bones... all material edible to humans.

and zombies.

innards are tasty, but they smell.....offal

This reminds me of the guy who posted the huge rant about his idiot redneck neighbor in McMansionville, GA. Granny with the chickens out back, "waterfall" from the downspout, etc.

Anyone know where you can find that?

Sounds like a neighbor I'd like to know.





This is a common scene through out the area from October through January here. And yes, the dog ate organs and other miscellaneous bits for the next few weeks. She was a happy pooch.