Is the Genetic Selection and Mutation of Domestic Animals WRONG?
Hello fellow Steemians! Today I wanted to bring up an issue on a topic... that is right there in so many of our homes.
It's about those cute and cuddly, sometimes fierce creatures so many people own and befriend; it's about the cattle and sheep that we eat and cook for others. Domestic animals are quintessential to the health and well being of humans, yet the humans in charge appear to be abusing their power over these animals.
They have successfully created pure and crossbreeds such as designer dogs and hairless cats
The selective breeding of these dogs is technically genetic mutationto benefit the human. Sphynxs (pictured) are an example of a hairless cat breed that is high maintenance when it comes to staying clean, and it cannot clean itself. Furthermore this cat is extremely affectionate due to the fact that it is missing its coat. Sphynxs cannot go outside. Put yourself in this breed's position. You've been altered to suit your controllers' needs. Because they are allergic or simply dislike cat hair, people have decided to create a cat that has none.
Dogs have devoloped breed-specific diseases and mutations over the years (See https://dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/100-years-of-breed-improvement/) Click the link for images and descriptions of how some pure breeds have devoloped over the past century. By applying human intellect to these animals' lives, this generation has destroyed the health of dogs all over the world.
What about cattle and sheep; chicken.
Terms like inbreeding are terrifying when applied to oneself, but is a method used to squander the effects of genetic diversity and is viewed as a highly effective way to standardize the quality of the breed.
This is a double standard that is applied to beings and creatures that are all essentially living, breathing, feeling, thinking...
Dogs are so intelligent they've been nicknamed Man's Best Friend. If we love and care, and they love and care, for one another and appreciate life so, why should they be subjected to means we would not dream of applying to ourselves as a standard of society?
SOURCES
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1983434
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_crossbreed
http://www.as.wvu.edu/~kgarbutt/QuantGen/Gen535_1_2004/Inbreeding_Domestic.htm
https://dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/100-years-of-breed-improvement/
there are 2 ways to skin a cat ...would you like to know them both........
Ok ...i will enlighten anyway....so one is to create the cat in your image then this would entail putting skin on a cat to give it life......the other would be upon death and this would be a natural decomposition as mother takes back the organic material into the earth that composes the skin ...then to create anew.....probably not the 2 thoughts most would expect........well....come on now....how you like dem apples eh
LOL
You say that we have returned to those cats dependent on us, but what we have done is to save his life. Natural selection is not only evolution, it also implies the disappearance of some species in a natural way.
Things like inbreeding have already been practiced before, especially under racist establishments, but humans do not classify them into different races or subspecies as we do with animals, hence the difference.
Great Input!
people have decided to create a cat
ya think?
In 1966 a domestic cat gave birth to a hairless kitten in Toronto Canada. It was discovered to be a natural genetic mutation and the Sphynx cat, as we know it today, came into existence._
Correct me if I'm mistaken now
I believe that in order to continue to create Sphynxs you would need to selectively breed
really?
I'm a trucker...not a genetic engineer.
Here's a direct quote from your link to help you out! I am also not a genetic engineer. Just love stirring the pot.
"Cat breeders in North America and Europe have bred the Sphynx to normal coated cats and back to hairless cats for more than thirty years"
it's been more than thirty years since 1966?
imagine that...
my how time flys.
I cannot hold in my laughter! That was your source, friend, not mine.
whut?
That quote came from your sourced link, I did not make it up lol
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