shooting cows in the head

     I recently watched the video of the notorious "shooting cows in the head" incident from a few months back ( sorry, but I'm trained as history teacher, so current events aren't quite my strong suit ). The video was somewhat nasty-- I can't recommend viewing it. But what was going on in the video was not cow murder, or a cow massacre, it was untrained or inadequately trained people trying to do a job. Yes, a job. As the story was told to me--35 or 40 years ago--most cows are killed by being shot in the head. It is supposed to be an efficient and "humane" method of bovine execution. Most Americans cheerfully eat the cows, and they ( the cows ) do have to die before they can become a hamburger. The people in the video seemed inept, at best, which made a very messy scene, and caused unnecessary trauma to the cows, who became hamburgers anyway.