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i'm curious what natural means in the context of animal species that are relative newcomers and have always been domesticated

• AmericanChopper 7y ago
  Organic, chemical free, natural, non-gm... are all marketing jargon that has no connection at all to what those words mean in the English language. Pretty much anything with carbon in it is organic, nothing is chemical free, natural is entirely a matter of opinion (is any agriculture “natural”?), and selective breeding is selective genetic modification (and very unnatural to boot). People claim that the new definitions for these words align with a supposedly simply guiding philosophy, but that’s not true either, the ones that are regulated simply align with lengthy, arbitrarily defined, and often inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another, regulations.
• Jedd 7y ago
  What animal species do you believe are relative newcomers? I'm assuming here that you mean species that have come into being since humans stopped being hunter gatherers -- let's say 10k ya. For me, natural means what they evolved to consume. So for cattle, and their genetic ancestors, it'd be grass, with perhaps some shrubby plants and trees. It certainly wasn't grains, for obvious reasons.