Thursday, 5 November 2020

Fur God's Sake!

News that 15 million mink are to be destroyed in Denmark, as a mutated version of Covid may have arisen in them, raises several questions (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/04/denmark-announces-cull-of-15-million-mink-over-covid-mutation-fears). It is uncertain whether the virus is Sars-CoV-2 but 12 workers with the mink are reported to have become infected by a virus. Denmark is currently the world's largest mink-farming nation. I really do think that this breeding of animals for their fur is wholly inappropriate, as well as constituting an unnecessary potential source of animal to human infections. Perhaps, this is a good time to stop the whole fur-production operation? An obvious concern is that a transmissionable, mutatated version of Sars-CoV-2 might jeopardise any vaccination programme for humans.
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