Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.

“Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.” is a supplemental task performed by Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers. Among the occupation's 13 rated tasks, workers place it 4th by importance (#10 most important). About 57% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Distribute materials, supplies, or resources. in Monitoring and Controlling Resources

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Use knives, cleavers, meat saws, bandsaws, or other equipment to perform meat cutting and trimming. · importance 4.6
• Weigh meats and tag containers for weight and contents. · importance 4.5
• Process primal parts into cuts that are ready for retail use. · importance 4.4
• Inspect meat products for defects, bruises or blemishes and remove them along with any excess fat. · importance 4.3
• Cut and trim meat to prepare for packing. · importance 4.3
• Separate meats and byproducts into specified containers and seal containers. · importance 4.3
• Prepare ready-to-heat foods by filleting meat or fish or cutting it into bite-sized pieces, preparing and adding vegetables or applying sauces or breading. · importance 4.2
• Clean, trim, slice, and section carcasses for future processing. · importance 4.2
• Remove parts, such as skin, feathers, scales or bones, from carcass. · importance 4.1
• Produce hamburger meat and meat trimmings. · importance 4.0
• Clean and salt hides. · importance 3.9
• Prepare sausages, luncheon meats, hot dogs, and other fabricated meat products, using meat trimmings and hamburger meat.

See all tasks on the Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-8802,
  title  = {Obtain and distribute specified meat or carcass.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-8802}
}