What are the advantages and disadvantages of domestication?

Answer 1

Advantages:

- provide food for many people esp. in livestock sector

- provide companion animals for people to enjoy caring for and being with

- gain knowledge and experience handling and rearing animals

- pride of ownership

- satisfaction of end-product or how the animals have worked out for you

- make use of land that is not suitable for other argicultural sectors esp. with grazing animals (sheep, cattle, goats)

- make use of excess grain and feed to feed animals

- make use of some food-waste products to be fed to animals who might benefit from it

- obtain income from selling excess stock

- responsibility to find adequate management practices to maintain health of livestock but also have a low-cost operation

- can gain emotional and spiritual attachment to animals that one raises, depending on the livestock or companion animals being raised

- huge responsibility to maintain basic needs

- pride in seeing animals reared from babyhood grow into adults

Disadvantages:

- responsibility to find adequate management practices to maintain health of livestock but also have a low-cost operation

- make use of some food-waste products to be fed to animals who might benefit from it

- huge responsibility to maintain animals' basic needs

- costs in buying feed/food for animals, building shelter/handling facilities

- no such thing as holidays when raising animals

- much hard work and endless chores involved

- in most livestock sectors there is little money gained from selling stock; most are in it for the pleasure

- financial and marketing responsibilities for selling animals

- can be tiring feeding baby animals every 2 hours 24/7

Answer 2

advantages

make more food for us

give more time to build new technology

never have to hunt

Disadvantages

stuff go extinct

lose defensive abilities