“We are playing with fire”

‘The biggest risk is the continuing existence of fur farms’

“I think the public health risk is so high, it outweighs any benefits of having such farms”

“Plenty of animals can move in and out of mink farms. Birds and bats fly in, cats and rats also. Even if people are very careful, nature can do the trick”

We are playing with fire.”

‘The biggest risk is the continuing existence of fur farms.’

“I think the public health risk is so high, it outweighs any benefits of having such farms”

“Plenty of animals can move in and out of mink farms. Birds and bats fly in, cats and rats also. Even if people are very careful, nature can do the trick”

This image (above) and these quotes are from scientists and experts in an article featured on the front page of a recent edition of the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

We know that fur farming is a disaster for animal welfare. But it doesn’t end there.

In Galicia, northern Spain, avian flu has been transmitted to mink on a fur factory farm. In the Guardian, George Monbiot reported that ‘while the mink were fed with poultry products, it seems that the likely cause of infection was contact with a sick wild bird that might have fallen against the bars of a cage, and was dragged through and eaten. Once inside its mixing vessel, the virus mutated to become transmissible to the other mink, then spread rapidly in this farm of more than 50,000 animals from cage to cage.’

COVID ripped through mink fur factory farms and risked our vaccine efficacy, now there are major concerns about avian flu. The public health risks of fur farms are real and serious, and authorities should ban them everywhere.