Artificial Selection Affecting Life on the Farm

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Artificial selection is very important in my life because I live on a farm. The reason why it plays such a big role in my life is because we raise animals for food and reproduction.
Artificial selection is the process of changing the traits of animals for your own means. So in my experience, we breed cattle by artificial selection so that we get the best for meat. In addition, we raise Limousin cattle so we breed our cows with a Limousin bull. This is because if we took any breed such as Angus, Shetland, Philippine, Albanian, etc than our cattle breed wouldn’t be pure and it’s hard to sell the meat that way when people find out that the meat is not a pure bread because they don't want to purchase meat that is a mixture or more than 1 breed because once the breed is mixed once, it is probable going to mix over and over again because it doesn't have just the original traits anymore which would mean that it's characteristics would keep expanding. This is important because we sell our meat to the neighbourhood since we do not have a wide spread farm to ship out hundreds of head a week. Therefore once our cattle reproduce, we can sell our bulls for good money because they are pure breed and then sell the females to those local families that are waiting to purchase their stock for the freezer.
In conclusion, artifical selection doesn't just affect cattle but affects almost any animal on the farm, unless you are just breeding for a hobby, but then again when you go to sell them for any means, it will be tough if it was just natural selection.