Observation Analysis

Farm Animals

The standard way of thinking about farm life is that it is boring, lots of work, dirty and inhumane. Changing the views that people have about farm animals is important, especially with our change in politics. I don’t not want to get into the political side of raising animals, but instead focus on what farm animals have to offer. In viewing farm animals, one can see that farm life is interesting, exciting and the opposite of being inhumane to animals. Each day has something new and exciting happens from a baby being born to the untimely death of an animal. One example is twin lambs being born to an ewe. The first time mother was not sure how to care for her lambs. Not being able to provide much support and intervention to the ewe, the twins were removed from the ewe, as they would not survive in that environment. This started another process that is time consuming and involving feeding two baby lambs with a bottle four times a day. Several important aspects of farm animals are well cared for as individual animals. If someone would consider the circle of life and what these animals are raised for, one might understand the purpose of farm animals. These animals have meaning in their short lives and that is to provide nourishment to my family. During this short life, these animals are cared, in a way that I know they have been provided the best life possible. Every day my animals have human interaction. Recently I learned of a terminology called anthropomorphism. This terminology refers to transferring human emotion upon an animal. Never realizing this term existed I related to it because if I had a bad day at work, my animals are always willing to listen to everything I have to say and they never talk back to me. I have discovered when talking with other farm animal owners, anthropomorphism happens more than when we know. Ultimately, if one was to view farm animals from a distance or not engaged in all aspects of a farm, often