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I don't fully agree with that timeline, at least not when you consider it more broadly. My granddad was a farmer (he was born around 1920). Back then, animals
by koonsolo 5y ago
I don't fully agree with that timeline, at least not when you consider it more broadly.
My granddad was a farmer (he was born around 1920). Back then, animals were still treated fairly well, and the animals themselves were also still natural. The real industrialization of livestock came after that, when he was already retired.
Having raised and killed animals all of his life, he actually wasn't too fond of how animals were raised and treated after that. For sure he regarded all specifically bred animals as unnatural.
- xbmcuser 5y agoWhat has how animals are treated got to do with selective breeding? Even your granddad probably used selective breeding.
- koonsolo 5y agoThe real question is how far do you take selective breeding. Do you want chickens that can't stand on their own legs? Olden days: no, currently: yes. Do you want cows so fat that they can't naturally give birth to calves? Olden days: no, currently: yes. How do you breed animals? Oldens days: put the male together with the female. Currenly, jerk of the male and inject the semen in the female. It's all industrialized. And what selective breeding has to do with how animals are treated? Everything. Unless you claim chickens too fat for their legs, cows too fat to give birth, etc, has no impact on their well being.