Freeing mink is not the answer. Shutting down these operations and making them illegal is.
Below is from the Cuddle Coats Facebook page >
Cuddle Coats
"Did you know that minks' lung physiology makes the species particularly high-risk for producing and spreading dangerous variants of respiratory diseases?
Even worse: Because the fur industry crowds minks together in cages, mink fur farms have become ideal breeding grounds for diseases that worsen COVID and may usher in the next pandemic.
When humans catch COVID from minks, those strains don't just stay on the fur farm. Infected people can, and have, spread mink-specific strains of the disease into their communities.
The same goes for minks who catch COVID from humans. Confined minks are notorious escape artists, and COVID-infected minks have escaped and spread the disease to animals in the wild. Minks have also spread avian influenza among their confined populations after contracting the disease from wild birds.
It's a serious hazard. But luckily forward-thinking members of the House of Representatives have introduced a new bill to protect public health and wildlife by phasing out mink farming.
The Mink: Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act, known as the Mink VIRUS Act ( H.R. 3783), would prohibit the farming of minks for fur after a one-year phase-out period, while also creating a grant program that would reimburse mink farmers to help with their transition out of the industry. The bill also sets guidelines for euthanizing minks in the most humane way possible. H.R. 3783 was assigned to the Committee on Agriculture.
Tell your representative to support the Mink VIRUS Act to end mink farming now."
Thousands of Mink Are Loose in Pennsylvania After Being Freed From a Fur Farm >
Thousands of Mink Are Loose in Pennsylvania After Being Freed From a Fur Farm
Excerpt from the above article -
"Mink
are native to Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, but at such an excessive amount, it's unclear if they would cause the same effect
as an invasive species.
The ALF and Oxford University
published a study in 2009 that argued: "farm-raised mink retain their wild instincts, and when released, can re-assimilate successfully into their native habitat."
I inherited fur coats/stoles and fur pieces that I wouldn't dream of wearing. So, when I looked into getting rid of them, I found this...
Here's How Your Old Fur Coats Can Help Injured And Orphaned Animals >
Cuddle Coats | Donate And Help An Orphaned Animal
Or you can ship your furs to:
Fur Campaign
PETA
501 Front St.
Norfolk, VA 23510
