How Domesticating Animals Changes Humans–and the Animals We Dominate

A very interesting recommended read on how domesticating animals changes them, but also us…

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Domestication means replacing a relationship founded on trust with one ‘based on domination’.”

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What could be the problem with dominating animals?

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“When humans start treating animals as subordinates, it becomes easier to do the same thing to one another.”

 


Wild thing

How and why did humans domesticate animals – and what might this tell us about the future of our own species?