Butchering Manual

Arna sheoladh ag Joe Hayes

"This manual was issued by the pigs and bacon commission which was a government body. They wanted to make sure that bacon production was standardised for export. Before this directive every bacon factory went about butchering in their own way. The manual was a list of guidelines and an instructor would call to the factories to demonstrate. Not everyone was keen on being told how to do a job they had been doing for years! I got this manual from Brendan O Halloran’s son, Brendan worked for O Meara’s."