Based on the book, On the Origin of Species written by Charles Darwin, artificial selection is defined as taking traits created through natural selection and combining the ones that are useful to benefit humans (Darwin 1859). For consumption purpose, human artificially selected animals to breed. However, this causes the domesticated animals to become less able to survive on their own. So, is artificially selecting animals ethical? Raising animals in captive conditions for domestic purpose will actually causes the genetic structure of these animals altered in long term by a process known as relaxation of natural selection. Some say artificial selecting animals for consumption is ethical since it is directly beneficial to humans, but this is








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