Covid 19 found on BC Mink farms

[Catherine]

It was totally predictable. Covid 19 has been confirmed in mink at a BC mink farm. Given the way mink are kept and the contact workers have with them, it was inevitable they would get covid 19. Now that this has happened, it is time to question the whole raising and killing of animals for fur. Polls show that 81% of Canadians are against fur farming anyhow. Most of the fur is sold outside of Canada. Animal rights group, The Fur Bearers, has been working to end the fur trade in Canada. They suggest that this would be the time to move away from fur farming.  It is now putting us at risk and fur is a luxury item and that doesn't balance with the suffering of the animals.
Mink suffer their whole lives so someone can have fake mink eyelashes. It is not okay and it is time we stopped it.

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We should  have ended mink farming a long time ago. That would have been the right thing to do. Now we have a pandemic and a virus that has spread to mink.
Raising mink is actually dangerous to us. For our own safety we need to stop mink farming. I wish we would stop mink farming because we reject animal suffering.
If we are willing to end mink farming and therefore mink suffering  to protect ourselves, that is okay. The result would still be an end to animal suffering. That is what really matters and however we get there as long as we get there, animal suffering is still ended.