Australia's World Butchers Challenge team

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Team Australia is preparing to compete in the World Butchers Challenge in Paris. Video supplied by World Butchers' Challenge.

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00:00Paris 2025 where athletes will fight to become champions and there's one discipline that

00:10rises above all of the others and that is the art of butchery.

00:24Well with a body like this I am a supreme effort it's a temple.

00:28Making butchery in a nutshell is 16 countries from around the world separate teams breaking

00:33down carcasses into primals to value-added products.

00:37Making product that's appealing and cookable and really showcasing the art of butchery.

00:42Each team has three and a half hours to build the best display they can.

00:46Each country uses their own techniques and every display looks different.

00:49They have to be mouth-watering, they have to be jaw-dropping and they have to translate

00:54to retail butchering.

00:55All the team members are all retail butchers.

00:58They've got some unbelievable talent especially representing Australia.

01:01Senior butchers, juniors, apprentice butchers.

01:04Our skills are so transferable from the humble butcher shop to the world stage.

01:09So the products and the skills that we use every day in essence make us better for the

01:13World Butcher Challenge.

01:14It's got to be the highlight of your career hasn't it?

01:17You've made a career out of butchering and now you're going to represent your country.

01:21Is there anything better?

01:22G'day I'm Guy, I'm on the ICOMPAC Young Australian Butcher Team.

01:26We're all going to be meeting here in Sydney right before we fly to Paris and we all can't wait.

01:30Being on the junior team we compete individually so we need to bring a wide range of skills

01:36to a competition day.

01:37We're really excited to support the young butchers to go overseas and get that exposure

01:42to new cultures and new ideas from different butchers around the world.

01:46This will be my first international competition.

01:49To be selected makes me super proud, so super passionate about to show my craft off to the

01:53world and the chance to represent Australia.

01:55Yeah, the boss is a legend, he always lets me practice in the shop, get some good products

01:59going and all the good ideas coming from Paris.

02:03If you want to be a butcher in the Australian Butcher Team you've got to be very highly

02:06skilled.

02:07You have to be competitive, creative and really love the art of butchering.

02:11Hi, my name is Brett Laws and we've come back for gold.

02:14My hands are everything to me, from building a product for my creativity to making the

02:19best in the world.

02:20Wearing the Australian coat of arms on my chest is the most proudest moments of my butchery

02:25career.

02:26What makes the Australian Butcher Team such a powerful force is that we have the entire

02:31Australian meat industry behind us.

02:33We couldn't compete without all the amazing partners that we have.

02:37We are so thrilled to have McAnoy on board, we just could not get to Paris without them.

02:42We love to support the team from Beef Week, Royal Easter Show, Meatstock, leading into

02:47Paris 2025.

02:49McAnoy Meats are very proud of the team, they've done so well so far and they're great

02:54individuals and I'm sure they'll do very well in Paris 2025.

02:58And for McAnoy it's all about the future of the meat industry, the youth, the men, the

03:02women that showcase their skills, it's just fantastic for us and that's what gets us excited.

03:07I'd say being the captain of the Australian Butcher Team is an easy job, I've got a great

03:12squad around me, I've got some great skilled butchers, so all I need to do is basically

03:16steer them in the right direction and the direction is to win.

03:19Besides my good looks, my skill set is boning, preparation and creating value added products.

03:27My role on the team is displaying and garnishing and I do a bit of value adding as well.

03:32The two super skills I bring to the team are my boning, I'm incredibly quick and clean

03:37and my tying is always spot on and the Kiwi's got nothing on me.

03:41This boneless lamb shoulder is comp ready, ready for judging and something that we'll

03:46be producing at the World Butchers Challenge.

03:48Some of the best Australian athletes have had moustaches, from Tex Walker to Boonie

03:53and this ginger moe is going to get me gold.

03:56I've never been to Paris and I know I cannot speak French.

03:59Beating France in Paris would be the silver lining.

04:02It would mean the world to us to know that everyone is there supporting us.

04:05We're coming for you Paris.

04:07Every Australian butcher is part of this journey.

04:09Every mate eating Aussie.

04:11Every chef.

04:12And probably not any vegans.

04:13But everybody else in the butchering industry can come along with us on our journey.

04:18So come on, support us as we take on the world's best, Paris 2025.

04:23Let's go Australia!

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