“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It’s a compelling argument against factory farming of domesticated animals.

This conversation on domestication lead to Adam Gopnik’s New Yorker article ‘Dog Story’ - an essay on the ‘co-evolution’ of dogs and man. Before the dawn of agriculture, the docile wolf was more successful in adapting to his environment, scavenging around humans without terrorizing them and creating a truly symbiotic relationship.

Maybe early Dog would have made a different decision if he could see what this forced evolution would turn him into…  the Yorkie, the Pit Bull, the French Bulldog: the free food just wasn’t worth it. I don’t think any of us would continue with our present lifestyle if learned that we were to become some type of human luxury ornament for a dominant species.