activists often complain that cute beasts get more sympathy than equally deserving ugly ones. If so, one would think a cuddly critter like the mink would be easy to protect. Yet in the Netherlands, mink are the only animal that can still legally be farmed for their fur. That is about to change. On August 28th the government brought forward to March a ban on mink-farming that had been scheduled to take effect in 2024.
Dutch farmers normally raise about 2.5m mink a year, making the Netherlands the world’s fourth-largest producer after Denmark, China and Poland. In April a clutch of mink and the farm hands who tended them were diagnosed with covid-19. Genetic tracing showed that at least two workers had probably been infected by mink, rather than the other way around. The contaminated animals were destroyed and stricter hygiene rules imposed, but by summer the virus had spread to a third of the country’s farms.
That was a win for the Netherlands’ Party for the Animals, which has four seats in the 150-member parliament. In 2013 it helped pass the law that gave mink farmers until 2024 to get out of the business. Now the party and its allies object to the lavish compensation the government has offered for bringing forward the deadline: €150m , or €1m-€1.5m per farmer. Somes allege that the compensation paid for destroying the infected minks was higher than the market price for their fur.
Fur farmers say modern standards allow mink to be raised humanely, and that they are not a big reason for the spread of the virus. But mink are solitary predators; animal-rights advocates say they cannot be raised humanely in stacked cages. As for covid-19, the worry is that mink could serve as a reservoir for it to evade human immunisation programmes. The industry’s turnover is modest , and polls show the public overwhelmingly opposes it.
Thank God! It only took a PANDEMIC to get rid of this horrid industry. RespectAllLife
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Good.
Go Vegan
Good! People do not Need real fur now!!!
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GOOD.
Let's hope Denmark and Poland will follow Dutch example...
So horrible how these beautiful friendly little animals are treated so some stupid brain dead egomaniac can dress a certain way 😒
Thank you COVID19
Pardon me, but who puts on animal fur. he/she is the styleless at least.
Boycott buying animal furs. The animals need their fur. Too cruel.
Finally, another new animal to harvest apart from Mink. Competition is key.
E, From Ray at MIS,
V Česku boli úspěšně ziskové farmy ludia velmi dobre podnikali v danom obore.Zákony EU zlikvidovali chov zvierat v kleci. Chovatelia prišli o miliony kompenzacia státu ziadna! Nesouhlasím !Kopa ludi sa o tie zvieratka riadne starala!Chov treba zachovat a rozšířit POLITIK V KLECI!
That's one good Covid result!! Hopefully this will end soon and FOREVER!
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