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Plenty of meat markets proclaim that they carry locally raised meat. At the new Heritage Butchery & Barbecue in Denison, that ethos is actually on display. Customers waiting in line for barbecue can peer through a large window into the chilled cutting room where whole pigs from Prairie Farmstead in nearby Sherman and lambs from the Noble Institute (just across the border in Oklahoma) are broken down. When I visited, manager Pete Gonzales and his crew were trimming down an Angus rib section from River Creek Ranch, which raises cattle in Sherman and San Saba, getting the ribeyes ready for the case. Next week will bring another whole beef carcass, maybe Wagyu from G Five Cattle in Sulphur Springs or grass-finished beef from Prairie Farmstead.…

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