Shooting multiple animals with a shotgun within easy distance of people working and children getting off a school bus, deranged behavior on like six levels
South Dakota's my home state, and Kristi Noem is only lucky she's the governor of a state of 900,000 because if she had a higher national profile she would be one of the most hated women in America.
Like I'm a hobby farmer. Mostly we sell eggs and give away extra produce to the community fridge but do you know what I learned fast? There are farm work clothes and there are good clothes and you expect the farm work clothes to get ripped and dirty. That is why you keep clothes for both.
The idea of killing a goat in a really painful way because he had the audacity to do goat stuff.... she doesn't want to farm. She wants paper machee props of farm life.
Like even if you don't treat livestock with the same attachment as family pets you still don't just *waste* them out of stubborn pique. At the very least, a farmer sees livestock as an asset.
There's definitely farmers out there who are sadists and fuckups just like every other walk of like but it's not a normal, let alone admirable, part of the biz.
You know what is a key thing that is drilled into responsible hunters? You practice marksmanship so that you don't cause the animals you hunt undue pain with botched shots. You use weapons appropriate to the animal you're hunting. You don't fire a gun near random people or houses.
