Meek Minks and Human Mores!

The 35 Million Minks Denmark has decided to Cull now, is the painful, right, final step in the liberation of the meek!

 

Here is a heart”felt” message:

 

People from cold countries love to be covered in fur coats during harsh winters. Furs give them much needed warmth and are light weight.

As an aside, the skins from which the furs were removed, turn themselves into beautiful accessories like a hat or a boot or a whatever that may be.

 

Suppose a person in Siberia or the coldest place in Swiss Alps yearns for the warmth of a Mink coat.

He walks in into a global superstore nearby, picks up a nice-looking coat of his choice colour, pay some cash, wears it and leaves the shop, stepping out into the cold with the newfound warmth given by the coat.

For this to happen, some things had to happen in the background.

Like

Shipping finished fur coats to sales points all over the world by logging millions of carbon miles.

Coloring the processed dead skin and stitching them into nice coats. “The flesh under the skin?” Oh that! We mince them to make feed for other animals / compost them to farm fertilizer / incinerate them / dump them into unsuspecting soils / wet markets elsewhere. Cool. By the way, when we incinerate them, we release tonnes of ammonia, sulphur, phosphorus into the unsuspecting air, and hydrochloric acid too.

Chemically processing the dead skin removed from live animals (okay! 'dead animals' if you don’t like cruelty to animals!). By the way, this leads to lot of pollution in environment, potential carcinogenic fallout not ruled out.

Removing the skin from live animals (practiced in Asian region) / killing the live animals by euthanasia by lethal injection / poisoned by carbon monoxide / hit in the head by a rod / some other indescribably horrible methods.

Feeding the offspring; feed the offspring, feed the offspring till they reach the ‘market required specifications’.

Providing excellent maternal care, best in the world in fact, and rejoicing at the birth of offspring that are oh so healthy.

Breeding the animals of choice fur colours in extremely hygienic conditions under expert supervisory in very large ‘facilities’ custom built across many many countries that are reluctant to close the door yet on this lucrative practice.

Raising the live animals of fur colour that of the choice of the markets. Oh, we feed them quite well with round the clock vigil on their health. We even provide swimming pools for them poor animals to reduce their stress.

Selecting breeding stock in millions, from what we call Fur Farms.

(What you just finished reading are the steps in reverse chronology that makes up and governs Fur farms, animals raised and killed under industrial roofs for their skin)

More than hundred million Minks, Raccoons and foxes are ‘farmed’ every year to meet the soaring demand for fur coats, hats, boots and what not!

Europe leads the pack, followed by North America and China. These farms are governed and regulated by their respective Agriculture Ministries.

Long activism against reluctant governments, aggressive fur marketing MNCs + insatiable demand by You and Me, were making a case for stopping this madness, though in a phased manner. Many countries are on their way to legislate closure of fur farms by end of this decade (another ten years of raising and culling) and switch to petrochemical based artificial fur stuff. Public at large still argues that artificial fur is not the real deal (i.e. they don’t provide equivalent warmth)!

 

Nature changed everything within a span of six months.

 

Starting from May 2020 in Holland and till today’s announcement in Denmark, governments are coordinating mass culling of Minks / Raccoons / Foxes raised in fur farms due to the realization that Covid19 also loves their furs!

The realization that Covid19 has infested the fur farms, mutated and are now infecting humans tending these farms, thereby nullifying the efficacy of any potential vaccine in the pipelines of the labs of world pharma companies, has forced them to act NOW.

They have no choice. We have no choice. Or…do we?

 

With all the advancements of Science and Tech, what stopped us from spending useful dollars in innovating a sustainable and eco friendly alternative in the past three decades?

 

Nature has decided to change our thinking and behavior after a long patient wait by unleashing Covid19 upon us (or was it not Nature?!).

 

Minks and Raccoons and Foxes of the world may finally be free of human cruelty fuelled by human vanity. They shall raise, live and die as Nature intended, out there in the wild, far away from the razed fur farms of the world, very soon.

The 35 Million Minks Denmark has decided to Cull now, is the painful, right, final step in the liberation of the meek!