I really, truly thought that mink farming had been made illegal throughout Europe, and was only found in places like China. Now suddenly I am told that countries such as Spain, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands continue to farm mink, keeping them in tiny, barren cages for a miserable and short life. The stresses of living in such captive conditions must have contributed to them catching Coronavirus from their keepers, as have some other animals in captivity.
I simply don't understand how people can luxuriate in wearing the skins of animals kept in such utter, utter misery. Calling this 'farming' is a huge misnomer - it's torture, pure and simple.
And whilst I'm ranting
how disgusting is the existence of Chinese 'wet markets', where wild animals and domesticated ones too are kept in cages and chopped to death in front of those who buy them, then prepared and cooked on the spot, with no hygiene, no humanity and no need to exist at all.
I don't usually make comments about this sort of thing, but suddenly I am sickened by it all.