Cheating Scandal Grinds Up Image of Junior Livestock Shows : Morality: Young competitors’ methods include drugs, dyes, glue, plastic surgery, even brutality. Youths beat lamb to harden its flesh. Boy force-fed water to a hog to boost weight; it died.
It was an all-American moment–grinning 16-year-old Ryan Rash resting his head on his grand champion steer, Badger, after winning the blue ribbon at the National Western Stock Show. The lumbering black steer fetched $37,500 at auction, and Ryan and his parents couldn’t have been more proud. But within days, the ribbon had been stripped, the … Read more