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Denmark culled 17 million minks and now plans to dig up their buried bodies. The Covid mink crisis, (Original Post) Throck Jan 2021 OP
Raising an animal just for its fur....awful! Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #1
Some humans are despicable. Evidently, more than I had previously assumed. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #3
Disgusting sorry but I am against the fur industry just too many alternatives that are lunasun Jan 2021 #2

lunasun

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2. Disgusting sorry but I am against the fur industry just too many alternatives that are
Fri Jan 1, 2021, 11:20 PM
Jan 2021

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 it’s not the minks as mush as it’s the conditions
Runstadler, who studies emerging diseases in animals, said the outbreak in minks hasn’t 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 it’s hard to know if minks are unique among other species in their ability to contract and spread the virus, or if they’re just in a situation that leads to such outbreaks.

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