Zootechnics contribute to increasing the production of milk, leather, meat and other animal products.
Zootechnics is the discipline dedicated to the study of breeding , reproduction and improvement of animals . Its purpose is to achieve the maximum use of animal resources by man, taking into account sustainability and without ignoring the well-being of the specimens.
It can be said that zootechnics aims to enable human beings to use animals for their benefit without there being an ethical dilemma in this regard, but always preventing animals from suffering unnecessarily. Therefore, zootechnics proposes how to better use animals for food or clothing purposes, for example, without the improvements achieved resulting in a senseless increase in pain.
The exploitation of animals
This last point alone opens the doors to an endless debate between the meat industry and animal rights groups: is there really a level of pain that can be justified? Is it right, ethical or fair for us to use animals for our benefit? It is very curious that both some religions and science (two opposing sides, if there are any) ensure that we have the right to consume the rest of the species, as if the Earth had made them available to us.
First of all, if we really had the obligation, from a biological or natural point of view, to reduce the population of certain species by using them for food , we would have sharp claws and teeth, we would be much faster and more agile, and we would not have reached build the cities that so magnify our ego in front of the mirror. But none of this happens: we are weak, incapable of opening a body in two with our nails or suffocating a large mammal with our mouth, and only a small percentage of the world's population enjoys admirable agility, even if only in contrast with that of a normal person.
Zootechnics is very important for the agricultural sector.
Animal husbandry and efficiency
Zootechnics, precisely, exists to make more efficient the perverse system through which beings without claws or teeth, those who cannot wait crouching in the grass for the most appropriate moment to pounce on another mammal and take its life to feed to their family, those who generally do not walk more than a few hundred meters without getting out of breath and desperately searching for a means of motorized transportation can buy trays of chopped corpses that are kept in the so-called good condition thanks to artificial refrigeration, inside a building also artificially illuminated, survive.
Among the topics of interest to an expert in zootechnics (known as a zootechnician ), are reproduction, health for preventive purposes, genetic optimization and animal nutrition. By developing knowledge and techniques on these topics, zootechnics makes it possible to increase the production of meat, leather, milk and other animal derivatives.
Importance of discipline in the agricultural sector
Entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector , therefore, require the advice of a zootechnics specialist to be successful in their businesses , since the zootechnician is the one who can indicate which are the appropriate production techniques to develop the farm in a sustainable way.
With this advice, the entrepreneur is in a position to guide his venture in a way that is profitable, making different decisions related to the land where the exploitation is carried out, the feeding of the animals, the management of waste, etc.
The position of vegans
Veganism aims for all this to disappear: for us to live in a world in which we eat what we can really achieve with our physical abilities, without overcrowding or torture involved, without speciesism.
We cannot live without eating, so it is natural to take the life of another individual to survive, but only if weapons are not necessary for this.