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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDenmark culled 17 million minks and now plans to dig up their buried bodies. The Covid mink crisis,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1249610The animal rights activist have warned us for years. Mother nature is clearly fighting back.
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(32,809 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)actually lighter and warmer and the terrible conditions the animals are raised and caged in
Using animal skin from a wild animal if living off the land is different than these crowded now diseased factory farms
From link it sounds like it may turn ou its not the minks as mush as its the conditions
Runstadler, who studies emerging diseases in animals, said the outbreak in minks hasnt surprised many in his field, in part because of the conditions in which they live.
At fur farms, minks are densely packed in conditions ripe for close contact with one another. Those conditions might be ideal for shoving the small mammals into metal machines that skin them for fancy coats and hats, but they also can be breeding grounds for the coronavirus.
Runstadler said its hard to know if minks are unique among other species in their ability to contract and spread the virus, or if theyre just in a situation that leads to such outbreaks.