Raising your own meat is not something that everyone does.  To a homesteader though, it's as common as growing your own tomatoes.  Funny thing is, I don't remember being so intimidated about growing a garden full of veggies as I was about doing something so huge as butchering a cow.  Putting the vegetarian debate aside, I wanted to talk about the logistics of butchering freezer beef.  When I first thought about raising a cow for beef I had no idea what to expect in terms of how much food…