Meanwhile in the Netherlands: Dutch farms ordered to cull 10000 mink

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These Dutch fur farms have been ordered to cull 10,000 mink over concern that animals infected with coronavirus could transmit it to humans. Meanwhile in the Netherlands…

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00:32Any environment that keeps animals

00:34in such appallingly intensive farming conditions

00:37as they're kept on fur farms

00:39has the potential to act as a breeding ground

00:42for infectious zoonotic diseases like coronaviruses.

00:46The animals are kept so close together

00:48that they can really quickly pass diseases amongst themselves.

00:51In the case of mink, they are not domesticated,

00:53so they're really difficult to handle

00:55and provide veterinary care to.

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01:10Scientists and politicians are very rightly concerned

01:13that even if they can get the human-to-human transmission

01:16of COVID-19 under control,

01:18that the virus could remain in a reservoir in the fur farms

01:22and then have the potential to reinfect people at a later date.

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01:53Of course, this is a terrible tragedy,

01:56but the real tragedy is that these animals

01:58were there in the first place.

02:00They'd been born from the very first day.

02:03They were destined to be gassed to death,

02:05to be turned into a pointless trim on a coat or hat or bag.

02:10So their lives were always going to be wasted.

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02:25This latest evidence coming out of the Netherlands

02:28that shows that fur farms actually present a human health risk

02:32as well as an animal welfare problem

02:34really means that the government should speed up that phase out

02:38as quickly as possible and make sure that this season of mink

02:42are the last mink that have to suffer appalling lives

02:45on Dutch fur farms.

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