...Even a chicken...
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Which needs to scalded, plucked and then have all pin feathers removed after butchering.
Did it years ago. Have a friend who raises them for eggs, hired a local family to butcher and decided the cost and mess was too high to bother. Took 8 experienced people all day to process 50 chickens.
I think red meat and pork is easier to process, especially if you do whole muscle cuts. I have helped process deer and that was after it was skinned, hung, washed, gutted.
Let’s see suburbanites get rid of guts and blood after butchering (you bury it if you don’t have dogs) or let’s see them hang a carcass correctly under cover, cool and in the shade and keeping it washed so flies don’t land. You folks who are decontaminating every surface every few hours will be horrified. It is messy, dirty and stinky. Also tiring.
Never happen. They will instead find a farmer and pay $12/lb for off-cuts to grind themselves. Done that, too. It takes time to grind burger, mix in the correct amount of fat and then clean everything you used. $5 hamburger will look cheap.
Oh: I bet there is a sudden burst of sales of meat grinders!! And knives!! How many people can hone a knife correctly and keep the edge?
This isn’t just a go-to-YT process.
I used to hunt. I shot grey squirrels, rabbits, pheasant. I even killed a squirrel once with a bow and arrow. I skinned it and ate it. Not a lot of meat on a squirrel.
I never killed a deer or any big game. Shot at a couple and missed. Got buck fever once and missed a perfect opportunity at a 8 pointer. Darn buck was 40 feet away. I waited too long to shoot. These were all in my teenage years. I have been around when guys butchered deer though.
Personally, I was never a big fan of Venison. I have had moose and Elk, which I thought were pretty good.
Frankly, I have never been able to go hunting for Rack of Lamb, so I have lost my interest in hunting.
As far as fishing goes. I have never liked trout. Which is the only fish in the streams around here. Now, give me an Alaskan Halibut and were talking. Actually, Striped Bass is also very good. They do not make their way up here(NH) until about June. Also, you really need a boat to catch them. They are hard to catch from shore except in the Merrimack River about a mile up from the ocean.