With the global population currently at 7,258,997,0331 and growing, agriculture can easily be considered one of the most, if not THE most, important industry on the planet. In fact, our very lives depend on the food produced by the farmers and ranchers of the world.

2014 UBC Farm Practicum in Sustainable Agriculture

 

Pigeons in many ways epitomize the concept of animal-human interconnected sustainability.  They are a bird that we humans have had a symbiotic relationship with since ancient times. We relied on them for several reasons, pigeons didn’t take up great amounts of land yet could still produce meat. Pigeons required little care and attention, essentially one needed only a loft to keep birds in at night to protect from them predators and during the day the birds would fly free.