Synopsis
For thousands of years we have been selectively breeding farm animals to make them more and more productive. But in recent years there has been growing concern that pushing profitable traits has led to welfare problems.
- Programme: Countryfile
- Episode: Gower
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Biology | Reproduction, genetics and evolution | Variation | Variation
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