I wish my dad was a butcher so we would get good cuts of meat for dinner!
My grandfather was a butcher. He used to slaughter animals and dress their flesh for sale during the 1950's.
Did it bother him at all to be part of the slaughter?  I live near a slaughter house and sometimes the smell.. furnaces for carcases.  Ugh.
It didn't bother him. He enjoyed prepareing meand and poultry for people.
I bet you had choice cuts from him, and there was actually a filet on your tbone steaks!
Oh yes! T-bones were his favorite steaks! He used to say that beef cut from the short loin is the best.