Animals in Pastoralism

Leticia Bindi says the two dominant animal-people relationships today are like photographic negatives of each other. The industrialization of animals for consumption is an exploitative system based on maximizing the growth of the animal in often unhealthy conditions, she says. On the other side, we have this with kind of relationship in the houses with only some kind of animals - called petification. In pastoralism and the practice of transhumans, the animal's product, milk, is consumed,. Yet she points out, without the inherent cruelties of industrialized farming.