As a market animal they have one purpose in life. That purpose is to provide food for people around the world. Instead of that market animal living its life out with a ton of other cows stuck in a corral all day, you gave that animal the opportunity to be a show animal. It got to travel, see amazing places, get tons of love and affection, and get the best treatment possible.

You gave that show animal the best life it could have had. Your animal got the best feed, best hay, and was never lonely. You were there, and whether you knew it or not, you made that animals time on Earth the greatest. It is a privilege for any stock show kid to show a market animal. Yeah at the end they have to go, but you have to look at it like this, it was an honor for you to take that animal in and help it have a better life than it could have had.