If you shop at the Quilt in a Day tent at Paducah, they rip it. But they give a little extra to make up for it.
I bought a bunch of fabric for a quilt once, I needed a lot of 1/4 yard cuts so I could make strips. Well, the "elbows" were so bad that my strips were only to the elbow!
I would rather have it ripped/torn than to have someone cut it who has not been properly trained to do so.