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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that songs and books for children often depict happy farm animals in attractive countryside, glossing over the realities of impersonal, mechanized activities involved in modern intensive farming?

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"Husbandry" is a shorter and more concise term compared to "Animal husbandry." Husbandry rarely includes the cultivation of plants and other aspects of farming beyond just animals; for possible confusions, a hatnote to Horticulture would be enough. Yorkporter (talk) 20:02, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Firstly, this is overwhelmingly the term known and used in the field, in textbooks, and elsewhere: it is the usual term of art. Secondly, any resource may be husbanded, so the proposed term is not only an abbreviation for the usual term, close to being a neologism, but is also ambiguous. Thirdly, terms like crop husbandry may be old but they do exist, so there is needless ambiguity there too. We simply should not go there. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:27, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]