Denmark plans to cull up to 17 million mink to stop mutated coronavirus
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Denmark, the world's largest producer of mink furs, plans to cull all mink in the country to contain a mutated form of novel coronavirus.
  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If the covid gets into a animal population, it's basically impossible to eradicate from an area. Pretty sure it's in wild animals here in the USA, by the way.

  • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Maybe I don't get it because I'm not a vegan but like, they're farm animals. This was their fate, though obviously much faster. Hopefully that industry does go down though, there are few things as wasteful as fur farming.

    • proonjooce [he/him]
      1·
      4 years ago

      I can understand farming for food but 17 million fucking mink for fur is astronomical levels of not good. Leave the goddamn animals alone and maybe well stop getting all these fucking weird diseases.

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Careful with the word genocide. This is obviously an ethical shitheap, but "genocide" is a well defined and serious crime that is reserved for a situation with human victims. I'm fairly sure victims or family of victims of genocide wouldn't be thrilled with calling this a "literal genocide".

  • Quimby [any, any]
    1·
    4 years ago

    My first reaction was horror. And it still sort of is. But at the same time, every single one of those minks was going to be killed for fur. At least this way, the mink industry there might die forever? It seems like critical support is the sentiment from animal rights groups right now.

    To put it another way , we should be horrified by the mink genocide. But this isn't the start of the genocide; the genocide began when we started farming them . This is just putting the genocide into a headline and clear view . GENOCIDE STILL BAD THO

  • chmos [any]
    15·
    4 years ago

    Wish they would do the outdoor cats next

    • Anakah [she/her]
      5·
      4 years ago

      Do they annoy you? Better kill them. Pure selfish evil, get fucked.

      • chmos [any]
        2·
        4 years ago

        You missed the first struggle session of this site

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Wait a week. The "my cat likes going outside" vs "catastrophic ecological collapse" debate is evergreen.

      • Amorphous [any]
        2·
        4 years ago

        You're right, fuck birds. Cats are cute, so it's far more important that they be allowed to roam free than that native bird species don't literally go extinct

        good take

        • Anakah [she/her]
          1·
          4 years ago

          Humans are responsible for the decline in native bird species. Blaming cats is a myth pushed by boomers who don't like cats pooping in their garden.

          Trap alter release is unquestionably the ethical thing to do.

          • Amorphous [any]
            2·
            4 years ago

            Blaming cats is a myth pushed by boomers who don’t like cats pooping in their garden.

            lol

            https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

            • Anakah [she/her]
              1·
              4 years ago

              https://www.alleycat.org/alley-cat-allies-responds-to-nature-studys-claims-on-cats-and-birds/