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Sometimes the rarer breeds (more rare?) of animals which are eaten have been left by the wayside in the drive for bigger, faster, more. As in Ortho's Poultry Plant post.
Some rare pigs are now being bred again simply because when slower and more natural breeding and feeding patterns are used, people appreciate the quality of meat.
I know you're not criticising farmers for not breeding horses for which they have no need, but I think there is definitely a trend away from over-produced livestock.
Of course it could be that people are just splitting along the lines of what is important and/ or accessible to them to them - the masses will have their antibiotic-laced, fast-grown, concrete-enclosed animal paste, and those with money, the gourmands and the epicureans will be tended to by specialist retailers.
I can't count myself in the former or the latter camps, so I guess it would be leeks & lentils for me in the new world order.
Although a girl can hope for a side order of cock occasionally, right?
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