Pros And Cons Of Selective Breeding
Selective breeding in dogs. Also known as artificial selection, is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to develop particular traits on the animals such as how they look or to produce certain exaggerated traits. There are many different types of traits that make reason for selective breeding, mainly physical, and only some for good emotional and disease blocking purposes. In a lot of ways, this is similar to inbreeding in humans. Selective Breeding a bad thing because of the treacherous things that can happen because of it, the funding of something that produces less good than there ever will be, selective breeding.
For starters, many of these purebred dogs have a wide variety of neurological diseases that will …show more content…
Bad side effects of selective breeding are nowhere near intentional, scientists just don’t listen to their own advice a lot of the time. Selective breeding is supposed to be used to benefit humans as a species and fight defective genes in certain breeds. Some of these examples are things you see everywhere; German Shepherds, bloodhounds and even beagles are bred to be drug dogs to catch criminals. Greyhounds, being race dogs, make people thousands and thousands of dollars a day. However, these are still to our benefit and not the dogs with the mutations or diseases we don't know of. That is extremely …show more content…
According to GreenGarageBlog.org, “there is high possibility that random genetic mutations happen, which may automatically decrease the effectiveness of the crops that are being grown [or in our case, the dogs not being able to perform the very tasks they were bred for.] because most mutations do not provide any benefits.” This statement is the holy grail of my argument. If most selectively bred dogs will not be able to perform the tasks they were bred for, then why is it done? Why do we waste our time and the breeds precious genes messing up their whole genetic code and having to kill half the dogs the breeders aren't satisfied with. This is why it shouldn't be done. Mostly, it’s a waste of
For starters, many of these purebred dogs have a wide variety of neurological diseases that will …show more content…
Bad side effects of selective breeding are nowhere near intentional, scientists just don’t listen to their own advice a lot of the time. Selective breeding is supposed to be used to benefit humans as a species and fight defective genes in certain breeds. Some of these examples are things you see everywhere; German Shepherds, bloodhounds and even beagles are bred to be drug dogs to catch criminals. Greyhounds, being race dogs, make people thousands and thousands of dollars a day. However, these are still to our benefit and not the dogs with the mutations or diseases we don't know of. That is extremely …show more content…
According to GreenGarageBlog.org, “there is high possibility that random genetic mutations happen, which may automatically decrease the effectiveness of the crops that are being grown [or in our case, the dogs not being able to perform the very tasks they were bred for.] because most mutations do not provide any benefits.” This statement is the holy grail of my argument. If most selectively bred dogs will not be able to perform the tasks they were bred for, then why is it done? Why do we waste our time and the breeds precious genes messing up their whole genetic code and having to kill half the dogs the breeders aren't satisfied with. This is why it shouldn't be done. Mostly, it’s a waste of