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September 13, 2022 @ 2:00pm – 3:30pm
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Presenters: Jason Pleym and Ray Bucknell
Jason Pleym, owner Two Rivers Meats 
Ray Bucknell, SAIT Instructor for Butchery and Charcuterie Management certificate program and owner/operator of Elevated Butchering.
Ray Bucknell has worked in the meat industry since he started his apprenticeship at a grocery store in a small town in interior BC, nearly 25 years ago.
The butchering business, along with his passion for the outdoors has taken him around western Canada and overseas working in butcher shops, abattoirs, wholesale packing plants, and two educational facilities.
His formative time entering into the hospitality industry was during his 5 years as the production manager at Two Rivers Specialty Meats, where he oversaw day-to-day production, as well as being on the leadership team during the growth of the company.
His current role is as Instructor of the Butchery and Charcuterie Management program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, where he continues to teach his main discipline, the conscious processing of animals for food.In addition to teaching butcher and cooking students the art of meat processing at the main campus in Calgary, he works with Indigenous teens and adults in their own communities teaching modern butchering with traditional meats, and runs an ethical, on farm animal harvesting business in central Alberta.
