The notion of breeding is used to name the act and the result of raising a living being . The term can also be used with reference to the person or animal that is in the breeding stage and to all the offspring that are born.
Breeding involves feeding, caring for and educating the new individual or specimen. A baby requires the material and emotional support of adults to survive and develop its full potential .
It can be said, in short, that a baby is a living being that is produced through reproduction , with the intervention of at least one parent. In the case of humans , sexual reproduction requires the participation of a man and a woman in the process.
It is important to mention, however, that the idea of offspring is not usually used with respect to humans: a baby is not called a offspring. As for the task of protecting and feeding the baby, it is called parenting .
The most common meaning of breeding is linked to the production of new specimens of animals through livestock farming . This is a very important activity for the global economy.
Cow breeding , for example, is carried out to obtain milk, meat , leather and other products. Human beings, in this sense, exploit the animal species: they apply various techniques to obtain offspring, which they then reproduce or sacrifice according to their needs.
Equine breeding , for its part, is aimed at the birth and development of horses, donkeys or mules. The new specimens, once they grow, can be used for creative activities, sports or carrying work.
Animalism and animal husbandry
One of the fundamental points of animalism, as well as any other movement that fights against the many forms of abuse carried out by human beings, is that there should not be a distinction between animalists and "non-animalists", in the same way that there should not be We should accept a world in which “non-sexual abusers” and sexual abusers coexist. The ultimate goal of those who help others is to raise awareness, not war.
However, commercial animal husbandry is the basis of the world economy , and this leads us to very difficult terrain: that of economic interests . When one of the elements at stake is money, everything loses weight for certain people, and that is why animalism is so annoying and noisy for them.
As expressed in some previous paragraphs, animals must be exploited for breeding by humans; They do not volunteer to grow up in overcrowded environments filled with violence, to be stripped of their children, tortured and, finally, murdered. At first glance, no argument in favor of animal exploitation (or any other type) seems to have a future in conversation; However, human foolishness defends it from the four winds.
One of the most regrettable excuses of those who support the breeding and mistreatment of animals, both for food and leisure purposes, is that "they don't feel pain ." While it shouldn't take anyone to conduct a scientific experiment to disprove this idea, they already have; Of course, nothing is more powerful than economic interests, and that is why animals continue to be objects with which human beings fulfill their most twisted whims.
The fight against animal husbandry, among other exploitative practices, is not something new, although detractors of animalism enjoy calling it "fashionable": in 1822, the first European law opposing cruelty and abuse was enacted in England. of lambs, cows and horses.