Really makes you wonder if we should be raising exotic animals in confined conditions for something as frivolous as their fur
BREAKING: First wild animal confirmed with covid. USDA testing says a free-ranging, wild mink sampled in Utah has tested positive for coronavirus. It's the same strain of covid found in the farmed mink in that area.
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I’m against mink farms and slaughter but are minks considered “exotic”? They are a common sight around lakes and in mountains of northeast US.
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Woah, I had no idea so many mink on these farms in
#Utah have become infected with#COVID19! "Between 7,000 and 8,000 minks have died since the disease swept through the ranches that produce the animals... So far, no animals in Utah have been euthanized"https://khn.org/news/thousands-of-minks-dead-as-covid-outbreak-escalates-on-utah-farms/ … -
Wtf the Dutch euthanised all of theirs. All of them.
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They need a curfew
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Well played, sir. Well played
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The case in Canada you mention was at a mink farm. This was the first wild animal
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