A third cow injured in the second attack had to be put down. Farmers and animal welfare charities have said that they believe the offenders are butchering cows to sell their meat on the black market .

a small dairy farmer had several cows stolen overnight, but one of them suffered a most brutal and cruel butchering, butchered the hind quarters of the animal and left her alive. Pictures and ...

referring to the practice of minimizing waste in the butchering process. For a smaller-scale operation like his that processes 10 to 20 pigs and six to 10 beef cattle a week — slaughtering ...