Dutch Parliament votes to Close All Mink Fur Farms in the Netherlands

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The Dutch parliament has just voted in favour of shutting down the remaining 128 mink fur farms across The Netherlands. It is now in up to the Dutch Government to act and put an end to the mink fur farming industry in The Netherlands once and for all.

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The vote comes on the heels of farm workers contracting Covid-19 while working on these mink fur farms. Workers contracted Covid from the minks which ultimately led to hundreds of thousands of minks being killed in order to prevent further spreading of the virus. This disastrous outcome led Parliament to vote to close all of the remaining fur farms throughout The Netherlands. While it may not be attributed to animal rights, this is still a monumental change that will spare hundreds of thousands of minks from slaughter and horrific living conditions.

Fur farming is quite possibly the worst exploitation of animals out there. Breeding animals in horrific conditions only to skin them for fashion is despicable and disgraceful. There is no place for fur in fashion when synthetics are readily available and don't involve the torture of living, breathing animals. Many countries across the world have already enacted bans on fur farming or are in the process of proposing similar bans recognizing the cruelty of fur farming and the lack of necessity in producing fur for fashion. 

Despite the many countries that have banned it, an estimated 100 million animals are killed for their fur every year with the largest producers of fur being China, Finland, Denmark, and Poland. Animals like raccoon dogs, rabbits, mink, and foxes live their short lives crammed into cages without appropriate veterinary care, living among their own urine and feces as they await their time to be painfully slaughtered for their fur. It's abhorrent the way we have used animals for our own ambitions and fur farming is the worst of them all.

It's time to put an end to fur farming. Across the globe, there is overwhelming support for an end to fur farming but despite this, it continues to operate. We cannot move forward with animal welfare and animal rights if we are still allowing archaic, cruel practices to continue. Ban fur globally, it's time.

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