Everything you need to know about how to dress and preserve meat is right here. From slaughtering to processing to preserving in ways like smoking and salting, author Philip Hasheider teaches it all.

Detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations guide you through the entire process: you'll see how to properly secure the animal, and get right into safely and humanely transforming the meat to a feast for the family.

You'll get to know different cuts of meat and see how to process it into different products, like sausages and jerky. With the help of this book, you...