"In June, as you’ll hear, everyone in rural Appalachia is out — the birds, the
hounds, the children from school — and the mountains are at their most luxurious.
Summer’s alchemy has a way of disguising how lean the coalfields of eastern Kentucky
can feel when what you’re trying to do is make a living. Summer emphasizes fullness,
possibility, a resurrection of sorts.
This piece chronicles one family doing their part for that resurrection. In a place centered hungrily and for too long on the harvest of timber and coal, the Fraziers are carving out a new way of making a living that doesn’t destroy the homeplace, and even chimes into its imaginative renewal. Their small-scale meat goat operation aligns the Fraziers with a whole movement of rural families cobbling visionary livelihoods into new economies by marrying local knowledge with the global tide. Their work is sustainable and rooted. What they mine is ingenuity"
The family slaughter the goats the way that Jesus was crucified, They have a very extreme view on the way they kill the goats, as well as this the podcast informs the listen about goat farming and meat. Although I don't believe that Fox hunting is extreme, others do. This Podcasts manages to humanise the the way the family kill the goats even though visually it may seem inhumane. This is what I aim to do. I am to make, something that many people who know little about it think is inhumane, the way of the countryside and something that is necessary.
http://transom.org/2004/blood-is-life-julia-debruicker/
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