If you eat red meat, you can take one more step toward independence by butchering beef at home. Learn how to butcher a cow yourself, including killing and processing the animal.

Jason Yang, butcher at Fleishers Craft Butchery, breaks down half a cow into all the cuts you'd see at your local butcher shop. There are four sections Yang moves through: 1. ROUND: bottom round ...

Vermonter Cole Ward has been butchering for more than 30 years, teaching everyone from home cooks to chefs, from ranchers to farmers, how to cut and prepare their own meat.