Tutorials/Meat farming

Animal and Meat Farming
Animal farming is one of the most favoured forms of farming alongside the staple foods like wheat, pumpkin, melon, and sugar cane, but what amazing town, palace, castle or faction/clan base would be complete without a local butcher to clean up some meat for a hearty piece of steak or other meats for dinner?

DJ&Riggaz Automatic Cooked Beef and Leather Farm
Video tutorial is available here. In trying to make an automatic cow farm that actually cooks the meat into beef before the cow dies is a problem that a lot of people face. The big question in this is usually whether to use lava or netherrack. Well personally, I'd believe that using netherrack, as cows are so big allows for the best and most efficient farm. Using a breeding station of some description as the hub of the design, with a water flow from the breeding pen leading to the cows falling onto a single block of lit netherrack at the very end of the water flow, followed by being pushed off from pistons that are underneath the last water block after a few seconds will cause the cow to die in a burning fashion a lot of the time, ultimately giving you beef as well as some leather.