Triple-Crown failure = delicious Japanese cuisine
Big Brown, some horse who apparently was pretty famous....as far as horses go, I suppose, was recently slated to win the Triple Crown. And recently, didn't even qualify for the third, and final race. Now, the mega-fast multi-million-dollar horse's fate is in question. You see, when race horses no longer race, they're usually sold for slaughter (often for Japanese meat-markets), except for the lucky few who are saved by the small number of animal welfare groups that buy them and let them graze around for the remainder of their lives.
But something confuses me:
If these horses are of such mega-awesome-running stock, it would make more sense to me that once they stop running, they could still make LOADS of money being put out to stud. Lotsa horses do that, why do retired racehorses get sent to the slaughterhouse? I don't get it! I may not know the intricacies of the meat-industry, nor horse-biology, but I would think that a former, MEGA-successful race horse would have semen worth tons of money.....Why is it more profitable to sell the horse for food, than to sell the horse to enjoy the rest of his life fucking and making lots of little race-horses?
Does anyone know? Seriously!
But something confuses me:
If these horses are of such mega-awesome-running stock, it would make more sense to me that once they stop running, they could still make LOADS of money being put out to stud. Lotsa horses do that, why do retired racehorses get sent to the slaughterhouse? I don't get it! I may not know the intricacies of the meat-industry, nor horse-biology, but I would think that a former, MEGA-successful race horse would have semen worth tons of money.....Why is it more profitable to sell the horse for food, than to sell the horse to enjoy the rest of his life fucking and making lots of little race-horses?
Does anyone know? Seriously!