Meat Cutters Meat Cutters Meat cutters carve beef, pork, fish, and poultry into smaller pieces of meat.
Meat cutters work in meat packing plants where they slaughter cattle, hogs, and sheep.
They cut the carcasses into large parts, such as loins or ribs, to make handling and shipping easier. Meat cutters usually work on assembly lines. Each worker is responsible for only a few of the many cuts needed to process a carcass. Depending on the type of cut, meat cutters use knives, cleavers, meat saws, band saws, or other equipment. Butchers work in grocery stores or other businesses that sell small pieces of meat.