The Grumpy Vegan knows he’s supposed to feel sorry for Roy and Gretchen Jackson over the loss of Barbaro.
As all who have witnessed the death and mourned the loss of a companion animal knows, it is the most heartbreaking moment anyone can ever experience in their life.
The Baltimore Sun quotes Gretchen Jackson as saying
Grief is the price we all pay for love. I’d like all of us to say a prayer for Barbaro, and I hope we can turn our love into an energy to help all horses throughout the world. … I hope each of us will find a path to support the horse.
The Sun also repeats an earlier quote from her:
It’s not about money. It’s not about limelight. It’s more about the horse and its beauty and integrity on a lot of levels.
Well, if it’s not about the money and the limelight and it’s all about the horse and his beauty and integrity, why force Barbaro to engage in an act that places him at such a substantial risk that threatens his life?
If I loved Barbaro as much as the Jacksons claim the Grumpy Vegan would give him all the love he deserves and leave him to live out his life peacefully in the field of his dreams. He wouldn’t be racing around the track chasing millions of dollars in prize money.
Barbaro’s value isn’t in the money he earned — a sentiment that hopefully the Jacksons learn thereby causing them to stop racing horses.
We shall see.
