my father used to be a butcher.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed. An ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272. Today, many jurisdictions offer trade certifications for butchers. Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship followed by the option of becoming a master butcher. Butchery is a traditional line of work. In the industrialized world, slaughterhouses use butchers to slaughter the animals, performing one or a few of the steps repeatedly as specialists on a semiautomated disassembly line. The steps include stunning (rendering the animal incapacitated), exsanguination (severing the carotid or brachial arteries to facilitate blood removal), skinning (removing the hide or pelt) or scalding and dehairing (pork), evisceration (removing the viscera) and splitting (dividing the carcass in half longitudinally).\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can see that. My father in law was a butcher at a major chain grocery store and at a butcher shop later in life."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Grocery stores often offer bakeries, butchers, delis, and fresh produce."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am glad to see that butchers are making a come back at grocery stores. For to many years meat was precut and not as personal."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool. I did not know that. Seems like a trade tradition that has been around since forever. It must take a lot of knowlege to be a butcher."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes,  Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I can see why. Learning to butcher animals correctly seems easy to a layman, but I can see a lot of studying being needed to do it correctly. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "skinning (removing the hide or pelt) or scalding and dehairing (pork) seem quite difficult"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes it does. When you think of taking a large furry animal and removing all of it to a smoothe skin seems almost impossible without damaging the hide. "}]