In
society there is concern about certain animal species becoming extinct
(like whales). There are many people that have campaigned to save
animals that are endangered (Save the Whales). Think about the amount
of beef and chicken consumed every day. Why aren't cattle and chickens
in danger of extinction, along with all the other endangered
species?????
Cattle and chickens are not endangered because they are well kept, unlike whales they are wild animals and they have to fight for survival by them selves un like cows and chickens that are fed everyday and kept shelter away from anything that could endanger them.
ReplyDeleteCattle and chickens are bred at farms and such, so there are far more of them. Whales are way to huge to be bred. With other endangered animals its because it is very difficult to bred them. Such as polar bears that need to live in cold environments where not many humans want to live, plus they are very dangerous. Cattle and chickens are easy to bred and easy to keep alive.
ReplyDeleteI agree that whales are way to big to be bred, and we made the same point on how cattle and chickens are not endangered. I agree they they are very easy to breed and keep alive.
DeleteThere is absolutely no market for whales like there are for cows and chicken, and there's no money in it for anyone else to breed whales rather than chickens or cows, so no one is going to do that.
DeleteCows and chickens are very heavily manufactured for food. They also reproduce quite quickly, as opposed to whales. They are taken care of and raised for slaughter whereas whales are just on their own from the start. We don't breed them, and we don't really take care of them like we do chickens and cows. They are a main and steady food source for us, and whales have no benefit to us in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI agree with how cows and chickens reproduce rapidly, unlike whales and other animals that have long pregnancy periods.
DeleteI agree with you. I like cows and chicken more than fish.
DeleteI agree because we do not use whales hardly ever. Maybe for a rare occasion but whales are not resourceful to us. Maybe to some zoo's but not for food wise.
DeleteThe cows and chicken are not that much endangered because they are easy to breed and produce. We keep them more well treated because we RELY more on them for our food, than we would a whale. Whales are wild animals and they do not have someone looking after them and feeding them at a specific time of day, The whales fight for their food and survival. Cows and chickens do no because they are in a barn on a farm somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this, in addition to my point, they are also much easier to breed than some endangered species, like whales.
DeleteI think we have more cows and chickens because they are easy to breed. They are not danger animals. They are in demand for marketing. Whale live in water and dangerous.
ReplyDeletechickens and cows are endangered because they are massively produced. They are main source of protein, unlike whales. whales don't have much as an impact on our daily life as much as chicken and cows. chicken and cows are raised by mass at farms and reproduce a lot faster than whales.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I said some of the same things. Cool.
DeleteChicken and cows aren't endangered because they can reproduce so quickly and in mass quantities. They're small and easy to breed. We breed them so efficiently and quickly because they are a main source of protein. Chickens and cows play a larger role in our society than whales. We are dependent on meat from them, unlike whales.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we are more dependent on chickens and cows than we are on whales, because what do you even use whale for?
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ReplyDeleteCows and chickens are not endangered because we breed them in mass quantities for the resources they produce. Chickens lay eggs and give us meat, cows give us milk and also give us meat. Whales are endangered because there is really no need to breed them, because we do not gain many resources from them. We are able to get oil from the ground so there is not much need for whales anymore.
ReplyDeleteI think if there's a necessity that we can only whales can produce, we would somehow find a way to acquire that. But as you said, there really isn't a need.
DeleteI think two important factors are the facts that we have the technology to breed chickens and cows efficiently and that there is demand for those animals. We have used chickens and cattle for hundreds of years, so we have hundreds of years worth of knowledge and science on producing and utilizing these resources. We don't know how to make Pandas reproduce to save the species from extinctions. There is also a need or want for chickens and cattle. They are resources from which we create products. Products which people buy. There's not much you can produce from a bald eagle that people want to buy.
ReplyDeleteCows and chickens have value that other species don't. In our society, things that don't have value, don't last very long. People can make a lot of money breeding and selling cattle, most people consume some sort of beef daily. Same with chicken. But since the species going endangered have no value to our society, we let them decline and do nothing about it. If we wanted to, as a society, save all endangered species we probably could. But that would cost money, not make any so we choose to let them go extinct.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think about the value of animal, but that is true. Animals we value more have more of an impact on human societies if they become extinct, but an animal that we don't value as much can go extinct with little notice by humans.
DeleteThere are many factors that come into play while answering this question. The best answer to me is history. The animals that we consider "farm" animals are the animals that were first domesticated. They were, and still are, being raised as a food source. Today, there are regulations on how many people can breed chickens and cattle as well as how many are being consumed. With this data, they can keep populations at a normal level. With whales, they are wild. There is no regulation on how many are being killed and there is nobody that is raising whales to help control their population. If we keep killing whales, we run the risk of causing the species to become extinct and that would have a huge impact on the ocean's ecosystem.
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