Livestock
Humans have captured, tamed and bred animals for most of history. The difference today is that the process is industrialised and extremely cruel to animals. More than 12,000 ago, before the first Agricultural Revolution, hunter-gatherers in Japan and Cyprus were already managing herds of boars, while the Pacific islanders of New Guinea had domesticated cuscuses, an herbivorous marsupial. Now, 90% of all large animals are livestock, including 1 billion pigs, 1.5 billion cows and 20 billion chickens. Historian Yuval Noah Harari calls factory farming, which started with the Agricultural Act in 1947 in Britain, ‘the worst crime in history’.
— Wayne Visser
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