Agriculture and domestication
Farming and agriculture are known world wide, but it has not always been like this. Agriculture actually began due to a ‘mistake’ made by hunter/gatherers. During the process of gathering plants, often times the plants were picked prematurely, causing the seeds of said plant to drop elsewhere and mutate into a different species of plants. This grew into being able to grow wheat and straw, among other species of agricultured plants. It is beleived that there was never truly a “light-bulb” moment for humans to realize that they should farm. They were almost forced into doing so in order to survive. Often times humans would farm for a few days and save enough produce that they did not have to do it again for a few more days.
Among the growth of agriculture came domestication of animals. As many humans today, domestication was started with the process of feeding stray/wild wolves. This took on a larger role when humans were able to domesticate these animals. At first these animals were thought to be used for fighting and protecting humans. Later it was found that these animals became pets to humans. Today if you lose your animals we bury them in a sacred spot and often times we rememeber those animals that we lost. Just like that, animals were found burried next to humans showing that they were not just made for fighting and protecting, but were just as much apart humans lives as other humans were.
Both of these topics bring out the continuty and change theory. Over time with farming we have seen a few continuties. Todays humans still domesticate animals and use them to help train live stock as well as producing different types of breeds. On another hand many changes have came with farming. Farming today is one of those jobs that many people tell you not to go into. Factory “farms” are taking over many of todays locally owned farms, and shutting them down. Soon I fear that there will not be any local farms and they will all be factory owned. This goes along with the question; was farming good or bad? I think that this is a very tough topic to touch on, as there are many different ways to view farming. Farming has given humans many things that we would not have today if not for them. The amount of produce as well as feed for out livestocks and domesticated animals (pets) is spectacular. Also taking into consideration how wide spread farming is, and how easy it is to copy farming. Emphasis on the factory owned farms. So I do not believe that there truly is a bad or a good. As with anything, there are both sides to farming.
