ZOOTECHNICS

 The animal science is the discipline devoted to the study of breeding , the reproduction and development of animals . Its purpose is to achieve the maximum use of the animal resource by man, taking into account sustainability and without neglecting the welfare of the specimens.

It can be said that zootechnics aims to allow humans to use animals for their benefit without there being an ethical dilemma in this regard, but always avoiding the animals suffering unnecessarily. Therefore, zootechnics raises how to better use animals for food or clothing purposes, for example, without the improvements achieved involving an increase in pain without meaning.

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 opposite 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.

In the first place, 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 our 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 splitting a body in two with our fingernails or of 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, precisely, exists to make more efficient the perverse system by which beings without claws or teeth, those who cannot wait crouched 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 gasping for breath and desperately looking for a motorized means of transport can buy trays of chopped corpses that are kept in so-called good condition thanks to artificial refrigeration , within building also artificially lit.

Topics of interest to an expert in zootechnics (known as a zootechnician ) include reproduction, preventive health, genetic optimization, and animal nutrition. By developing knowledge and techniques on these issues, zootechnics allows increasing the production of meat, leather, milk and other derivatives of animals.

Thus, entrepreneurs in the agricultural sector require the advice of a specialist in zootechnics to be successful in their businesses, since the zootechnician is the one who can indicate which are the appropriate productive techniques to develop the exploitation in a sustainable way. Counting on 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 takes place, the feeding of the animals, the waste management, etc.

The veganism suggests that all go away: they live in a world in which we nurture of what we can actually achieve with our physical skills, without overcrowding and torture by 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.