butcher

Butchers order, inspect and buy meat to prepare it and sell it as consumable meat products. They perform activities such as cutting, trimming, boning, tying, and grinding beef, pork, and poultry meat. They prepare those mentioned sorts of meat for consumption.

The most in-demand skills for this role include legislation about animal origin products, warm blooded animal organs, cultural practices regarding animal parts sorting, food storage, animal anatomy for food production, tolerate strong smells. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives butcher a score of 0.46 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.