Ethics of Breeding
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By: Sustainable Farm Animal Breeding, SEFABARThe concept of sustainability, with origins in resource economics, is familiar today. Its considerable rhetorical force is amply demonstrated by its regular appearance in both corporate marketing strategies and the arguments of interest groups criticising what they see as irresponsible corporate activity. In essence, sustainability is characteristic of states or processes that can be maintained over time with the right kind of management.
It therefore indicates that a resource can be harvested and consumed in perpetuity. But beyond this, quite what sustainable use of a resource involves is open to dispute.
The issues raised by sustainable farm animal breeding and reproduction are complex for two reasons.
First, it is impossible to clarify breeding sustainability without discussing the livestock production sector as a whole, and indeed agriculture as a whole, and indeed the food industry as a whole... and so on. And as has already been mentioned, the issues change as we turn from ruminants to pigs, and then to poultry, and then to fish.
