We human beings live with many other creatures on earth. We have long been killing animals and fishes for food and many other purposes, and some have extinct or nearly extinct because of human beings. In Japan, vegetarians are said to be only around 9.2 percent of the population and the others eat meat. The more we consume, the more we have to raise the animals. To support the growing population, we have to raise more than 100 billion farm animals. This is definitely bad for the environment. However, this problem can be addressed by breeding.
For many decades, human have been studying breeding. A good example of breeding is the chickens made by Kentucky Fried Chicken. If you think about raising the chickens only for the purpose of eating them, you don’t need their eyes or feathers. KFC’s research teams succeeded in breeding them into eye-less, and feather-less chickens. Despite the creepy looks, they are well optimized. Learning from this example, breeding is a good way to address this problem. One solution I recommend is to breed animals that eat less, or doesn’t eat at all. A creature called Bathynomus Giganteus, is said to be able to live without eating for 5 years. By studying its DNAs, I assume that we will be able to make animals that don’t have to eat much. This is not only good for the environment but also good because the cost of raising animals would be much lower. As we saw in the video of Andras Forgacs, people already succeeded in creating artificial meat or leather. Therefore, I assume it is possible to make it.
We human beings cannot just keep on raising and killing animals. Since our biological technology has developed, I consider that we should breed animals into more efficient animals.