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Too Much Barbaro

So, look I don’t mean to come off like an insensitive jerk here, but if I read one more account of the “heroic” Barbaro, I think I’m going to scream.
Yes, he won the Kentucky Derby and he was a brave horse in his fight to live and after breaking down at the Preakness.
But, my G-d, he was a product of the horse breeding industry, an animal bred to make his owners a profit.
How about these three names? Know who they are? Emi Elmaliah, Michael Ben Sa’adon, Israel Zamolloa.
They were three Israelis whose lives abruptly came to an end last month when a homicidal maniac blew himself and these there innocents up in an Eilat bakery. And yet, while we could probably find that Barbara dined on a hefty diet of special oats and hay, we’d be harder pressed to learn much about these three Israelis, who were working at a bakery when their lives came to an end.
I never heard of the word “laminitis,” but now by reading the area media, I know more than I ever wanted to know.
But have I ever read an article about what happens to a person when they are killed by a combusting bomb. Nope, don’t remember seeing that well designed graphic anywhere.
Still, we don’t have to go far to bring home the point anymore. Notice how cold it is outside?
Couple nights ago, I was driving home through the city after a late night of work. I came to a corner, it was about 10:15 and there was a young man bundled up holding the hand of a toddler, also bundled up. This was no place for baby. He should have been in bed, covered up, nice and warm. Yet, not far from Eutaw Street, he was here out late in the freezing cold?
Annie Mae Anderson?
Know that name?
Probably not.
She died the other night, freezing to death. But she was 81, had dementia and wasn’t wearing a coat when she wandered outside.
You know what the poor of the inner city who fight the cold every day, Annie Mae Anderson and even the three largely unknown victims of terrorism in Israel seem to have in common?
They aren’t Barbaro.
We should care about our fellow man as much as we do about a horse.
But maybe we don’t. And that’s our problem.

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Posted by Alegra on 08/28/07 at 05:28 PM

Barbaro drew national and international interest for two reasons; being a very successful horse in the sport of horseracing for the sports fan, and being a magnificently beautiful horse in the spotlight for the people that are animal lovers.  But is also is a story of interest to people because of the effort to rehabilate and save him.  Millions saw him gallup to glory in the Kentucky Derby and shocked viewers when he pulled up lame in the Preakness.  Unfortunately, people that die tragically like those who are killed in war, people (not animals) that have suffered, do not receive the attention that an animal—Barbaro—has received.  Sadly, those tragic situations are far more commonplace while Barbaro’s is a unique story -and like it or not, is a human interest story.  You may also compare this to someone who knows all the ballplayers or movie stars, but cannot name one person over the past five years that has won a Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted by Glenn Carr on 02/08/07 at 06:47 PM

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