Matthew Maran / Butcher counter with meat for sale in supermarket, north London, England, UK.

Matthew Maran / Meat: Chicken and pork carcasses at supermarket, North London, England

Matthew Maran / Beef sirloin steaks for sale at butcher's counter in supermarket, North London, England, UK

Matthew Maran / Meat offal, including sheep hearts, for sale at butchers counter. North London, England

Ashley Cooper / Malawians butchering a Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) near Chikwawa, Malawi. March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Malawians butchering a Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) near Chikwawa, Malawi. March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Malawian man butchering a Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) near Chikwawa, Malawi. March 2015.

Ashley Cooper / Seal meat butchered by an Inuit man, Ilulissat, Greenland, July 2008.

Nick Upton / Climbing butcher's broom / Gibalbera (Semele androgyna), with fruit in montane Laurel forest / Laurissilva, Los Tilos de Moya, Doramas Rural Park. Gran Canaria UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Gran Canaria,...

Nick Upton / Climbing butcher's broom / Gibalbera (Semele androgyna), a Canaries endemic, flowering from leaf-like flatted stems or cladodes in montane Laurel forest / Laurissilva, Los Tilos de Moya, Doramas Rural...

Nick Upton / Climbing butcher's broom / Gibalbera (Semele androgyna), a Canaries endemic, flowering from leaf-like flatted stems or cladodes in montane Laurel forest / Laurissilva, Los Tilos de Moya, Doramas Rural...

Nick Upton / Climbing butcher's broom / Gibalbera (Semele androgyna), a Canaries endemic, flowering from leaf-like flatted stems or cladodes in montane Laurel forest / Laurissilva, Los Tilos de Moya, Doramas Rural...

Gary K. Smith / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus). England, UK. February.

Alex Hyde / Spineless butcher's broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) flower on cladode, a flattened leaf like stem, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.

Alex Hyde / Spineless Butcher's Broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. November.

Cyril Ruoso / Man holding knife to butcher Long finned pilot whale ( Globicephala melas) Faroe Islands, August 2003.

Loic Poidevin / Small shops including a butchers with a bicycle outside, Kenya, October 2013.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Himba family in the dry bed of a river, with women sitting in the shade of tree, while men butcher a cow, Kaokoland, Namibia, September 2013.

Steven Kazlowski,Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers butcher a Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) catch in the village of Kaktovik, Barter Island, North Slope, Alaska

Juan Manuel Borrero / Butcher's Broom (Ruscus aculeatus) berries, Barcelona Province, Spain, November

Konrad Wothe / Butcher selling camel meat in Tripoli, Libya, North Africa, December 2007

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Inuit hunter hauling killed Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) onto sea ice to butcher it. Siorapaluk, Northwest Greenland. 40 BELOW bookplate.

Florian Möllers / Chinese butcher preparing pork and cow meat in the market of Zhouzhi town, Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, China, March 2006

Colin Varndell / Butcher's Broom (Ruscus aculeatus) berries and leaves. The New Forest, UK, October.

Colin Varndell / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) close-up of red berry and foliage, New Forest, UK, September

Tony Phelps / Common Fiscal shrike / Butcher Bird (Lanius collaris) deHoop Nature Reserve, Western Cape, South Africa, August

Paul Harcourt Davies / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) single branch with red fruit, Orvieto, Italy, Europe.

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq subsistence whalers butcher a Bowhead whale, (Balaena mysticetus) catch on the pack ice during spring whaling season, Chukchi Sea, off the coastal village of Barrow, Alaska. May 2009

Steven Kazlowski / Inupiaq / Inuit subsistence whalers butcher a Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) catch on the pack ice during spring whaling season, Chukchi Sea, off the coastal village of Barrow, Alaska, USA, May 20...

Steven David Miller / Pied Butcherbird {Cracticus nigrogularis picatus} perched, The Kimberley, Western Australia

Jouan & Rius / Black throated / Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) Central Australia, Australia

Steven David Miller / Black throated / Pied butcherbird {Cracticus nigrogularis picatus} killing a snake, Broome, Western Australia

Pete Oxford / Pied / Black throated butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Pete Oxford / Pied / Black throated butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Constantinos Petrinos / Dog meat, butcher cutting up dog in market to sell, South Sulawesi, Indonesia 2000.

WILLIAM OSBORN / Pied / Black throated butcher bird drinking {Cracticus nigrogularis} QLD, Australia.

Flip Nicklin / Shark meat for sale in butcher's shop, San Jose, Costa Rica

Dan Rees / Meat market scene, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1997

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Steppe grey shrike {Lanius excubitor pallidirostris} with prey on spike. Dauka, Oman

Flip Nicklin / Man cutting shark meat in fish market, Costa Rica

Philippe Clement / Butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus) berry and leaves close up, France. April.

Mike Read / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) in flower, Garsten Wood RSPB Reserve, Dorset, England, UK. April.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Spineless butcher's-broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) in flower, Umbria, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) fruit, Umbria, Italy. December.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus). Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK. March.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's-broom (Ruscus aculeatus). Box Hill, Surrey, England, UK. March.

Matthew Maran / Meat for sale at butchers counter in supermarket,, North London, England, UK.

Matthew Maran / Butcher counter with meat for sale in supermarket, north London, England, UK.

Matthew Maran / Butcher counter with meat for sale in supermarket, north London, England, UK.

Matthew Maran / Butcher counter in supermarket, north London, England, UK.

Matthew Maran / Beef going through mincing machine at butchers.

Matthew Maran / Close up of pig trotters for sale at butchers, North London, England.

Linda Pitkin / Butcher's broom (Ruscus aculeatus) flower, Box Hill, Surrey, England, February 2019.