Mink farms...in Ireland and Denmark??!

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I thought there was a load of outrage about chlorinated chicken, animal welfare, and the UK leaving the EU.

But I was just reading about mink culls as a result of coronavirus.

What the hell?

There are MINK farms in Ireland and Denmark? Jesus, those were countries I considered to be forward looking?

It's disgusting

I didn't know that. I think of fur farming as some barbaric foreign practise like eating animals when they're still alive or slowly murdering a bull in front of an audience. Makes me sick all this animal torture for human pleasure.

In Ireland at least, the cull just slightly precipitated the ending of mink farming - there had been government commitments and actions (I think including legislation) to ensure that they were being closed down anyway next year.

The farmers would not have been continuing to farm the mink if there wasn't a market for their production.

There are plenty of things that can be seen as barbaric in farming and life in this country and others from the outside - but there is still a market for that produce (battery farmed chickens and eggs etc) and sometimes its not necessarily in their lives but in the food production cycle (how many cheaper foods using palm oil and loads of sugar even in savoury food are still on the market so companies can turn a buck?).

You're unreasonable to think countries like Ireland and Denmark are more moral and better than other countries. There's greedy, soulless people in every country.