Ranchers spend millions on cattle sperm

[GHOSTDANCER]

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Recently, more than 400 people gathered in a neoclassical ballroom at the Copacabana Palace, a posh seaside hotel in Brazil's second-largest city. They drank sparkling Italian wine and nibbled on brie brochettes before heading into a giant dining room featuring huge chandeliers, while camera crews jockeyed for angles of the dais.

The women, in designer dresses and jewels, headed for tables as the men, in tailored suits and gelled hair, milled about, making small talk beneath supersize screens broadcasting a digital slideshow of the evening's stars: white humpbacked cattle.

The Opera and Bilara Auction, named after two of Brazil's most prolific cows, is the pinnacle event in the calendar of the country's growing ranks of wealthy cattle breeders. But they were not auctioning off cattle, per se. By the end of the evening, they had shelled out nearly $1.5 million for 33 fertilized cattle eggs, which can be implanted in a cow to produce an animal with prime bloodlines.

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I couldn't resist...come on we gotta have some ranchers out there.

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1. MMMMMM....

[BadGimp]

2. to easy

yep not gonna go there..

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. I met someone who just paid $56k for deer sperm...

When they were discussing this I had to bite my tongue and walk away. :eyes: