Years ago when my husband (a rancher) left the sale barn in Sealy Texas(cattle), he walked up on a group of Chinese in the parking lot butchering a calf in the trunk of their car. They had obviously just bought it at the sale barn and were in the process of cutting it up.
No way to know if it was for their own consumption or for their Chinese restaurant.
Either way I think what they were doing was illegal. If they do that in Texas just imagine what they do in China.
Here in Chicago, there was a news story I read a few years ago where the neighbors called the police after hearing some strange noises and a gunshot. Turns out, the Eastern Europeans in the house next door had shot and were butchering a cow in their garage. They didn’t seem to think there was anything unusual about that.
Butchering cattle is illegal in Texas?