{"id":5154,"date":"2023-06-08T16:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2023-06-08T16:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:49:47","slug":"bones-and-all-why-whole-carcass-butchery-is-more-important-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/featured\/bones-and-all-why-whole-carcass-butchery-is-more-important-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Bones and All: Why Whole Carcass Butchery is More Important Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ll be honest with you, I cannot think of too many occasions where being led down a set of stone stairs into a freezing cold basement full of carcasses would fill me with anything other than abject terror. But here I am, entering the bowels of School Lane in Heaton Chapel, Stockport, being introduced to a hanging parade of ex-pigs and cows.<\/strong> Oh sound, there’s also loads of cleavers and butchers’ knives knocking about as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, I wasn’t greeted by a frozen solid Frankie Carbone<\/a> when I completed my descent into the subterranean storage area of Littlewoods Butchers. The body parts and internal organs that were carefully assembled on shelving units and on hooks hanging from the ceiling all once belonged to the farmyard. After the initial nerves had dissipated, I fancied commencing my own Rocky montage, taking jabs at the swinging, skinned, dismembered bodies, exhaling icy breath as I sprinted back up the stairs onto the shop floor and out through the door, all the way to the big Co-Op Pyramid in Stockport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn’t, obviously. Anyone who’s ever met me will know that I simply don’t run. And I especially wouldn’t run away from a shop full of sausages, steaks and pork pies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, I would run. I would run to Littlewoods Butchers every single day if it didn’t result in me having an enormous asthma attack after about 20 yards. I would also urge every meat eating person reading this to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We live in an age where sustainability and eco-friendliness are at the forefront of a multitude of extremely important conversations. Yet as a society we still have disposable attitudes thrust upon us at every turn. Which is why I find myself being toured around Littlewoods by the shop’s owner and lifelong family butcher, Marcus Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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