Did nature intend animals to be domesticated?
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Did nature intend animals to be domesticated?
Man has always tried to establish his mastery over nature in many ways. Every time man has come up with something that defies the laws of nature, it has always been with certain losses to him. Conserving nature has become a challenge today, we need advertisements and campaigns to save the earth, save wildlife, save animals! Who does the earth need saving from? Man! Man in his greed and need to rule the world has done great damage to mother earth and her wonders.
Nature has always been perfect. She has a design for everything that exists. Take for example- animals. The polar bear can survive the severe cold weather in the polar region. It never goes out to build itself fires, or ask for electric heaters to survive the cold. Nature designed that bear in such a fashion that it is self sufficient. His white fur creates a perfect camouflage for him to hide from enemies, his fur keeps him warm, he knows how to fish and can find himself food when hungry. He does not need to cook food to be able to digest it better. Take any other animal for example for that matter, and you will find the same. Each species has been crafted to best help its survival.
To come to the point- nature creates perfectly. Then man intervenes. He wants to control and own the world. He sets about marking and claiming his territory. Then he sets about making himself comfortable. He also wants to own animals for the benefits they bring him. Be it cows, goat, sheep, dogs, horses-whatever. When man started taming these animals- he made them incapable of surviving in the wilds, in their natural habitat. He also made them a little lazy. These tamed animals become dependent on man to feed them. They lose a bit of their natural hunting skills. They do not survive too long in the wilds.
Did nature ever tell man to pull a creature out of its natural habitat and put it in a zoo for his amusement or research? Did nature ever indicate that these poor animals would die if man did not keep them in his yard or home? Did nature ever say, "sell them, sell their fleece, sell their flesh or use them to make money?"
One hears of racehorses being shot if they don't win a race, apparently it is too expensive to keep feeding a horse that no longer wins. Or then they are sent off to the slaughter house. Animals that belong to circus also have more or less the same fate. Is this what being human is all about?
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