 breeder
Cows, sheep, as most livestock (food based) can live perfectly well with no human contact IMO..if you had an automatic system that fed, cleaned out barns, detect any visible infections, health problems etc, turned them out to pasture and gathered them at night, I would dare say you would have normal cows or sheep..no insane lunies. Even horses do perfectly well living free...note, Assateague Island ponies...I do think livestock need other livestock to live among, I doubt even a cow would be happy living alone in a barn, with no humans or other animals.
If you "farm" domestic animals as livestock, in short time you have mentally unsound animals, with pack mentality. They, in turn produce mentally unsound animals...dogs need human contact, they can not live confined in cages like birds..when they receive little contact, they do not always make good pets, bonding toward humans is so hard...a cow does not need to learn to interact with humans from the first few weeks... not many live in our homes, become our companions and play with our children...I have meet a number of Amish breeders in Maryland, I have NO respect for any of them. |