Reporting Highlights
- Deadly Outbreak: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic.
- Government Failures: State officials didn’t order the mink to be killed, which other countries with outbreaks have done. They are prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.
- Silent Risks: Despite CDC guidance urging officials to monitor workers, they actively chose not to and declined to test workers — including one with a symptom experts said would warrant testing.
They’re farming mink? For the fur?? Who is even buying it???
Yeah… that pissed me off more than authorities refusing to order them to cull the infected animals (which they should have done on their own anyway, imho)
Very rich MAGAs.
China buys all the mink fur in the world for clothes production. I’m not sure where the end consumers of the products are.
It’s the secret ingredient in Temu fabric. One mink can make a thousand shitty T-shirts.
Are you kidding? You don’t know that women love it?
Maybe…. We shouldn’t be farming animals….
It might be an idea to argue for veganism AFTER fascism collapses.
Why can’t we stop pointless consumption that probably benefits said fascists today?
If you want to do that as an individual, that’s a choice. But I’m saying we are in an existential crisis right now, that’s going to decide what kind of society we will be: democracy or monarchy. Until the cruel government we now have is dealt with, the niceties will be ignored by the average American, or dismissed as fringe.
Okay, what actionable steps will you take in order towards that?
I think one would be to stop consuming pointless products, like meat or leather or whatever, that fuel the lobbyists working together with your government.
It’s as individuals that we together create a group strong enough to pose a resistance.
Not much you can do
I think you can do some small changes in your life today, that when compounded over time might have benefits for the world.
If you agree that we should stop farming animals, going vegan or even vegetarian is probably a good step in the right direction.
The impact on the government might be negligible, but there are plenty of other benefits for the world.
Fur? Really? Still?
Animals? Really? Still?
I live in Utah why the fuck is this two day old article how I’m hearing about this? FUCK
They are prioritizing the financial interests
Sums of why a lot of things are bad
Utah… yep. That tracks.
Literally nobody needs a mink farm.
Essential
Workers
In Spain and Finland they also had to kill whole farms full of Mink. in 2022 and 2023 for avian influenza.
It’s insanely sad and pointless that they are raised to be killed for fur in the first place, but at least that was the correct reaction to the infection.
In this case in Utah they just let underpaid workers die?
Between this and the Russian incident that everyone has stopped talking about…
Supposedly Russia updated the World Health Organisation last week to say the young lab worker who died did not die of parapneumonic plague and that no pathogens have been identified so far. They’ve also quarantined 200 of her contacts.
It suggests both that they are taking this very seriously and that something probably DID happen. That one is looking like a near miss, but with the big caveat that who knows how much Russia is actually revealing.
Shit man, I need to keep more aware of actual stories and not the swamp. I forgot about that and was trying to think of if there was a mink farm outbreak in Russia, thanks for the update
The world is so chaotically fucked up right now that officials are saying “Let’s wait and see what happens”.
Don’t forget, the Regime has flat-out refused to allow the development of a vaccine in the states. This will kill millions.
This is untrue. The US already has bird flu vaccines.
Oh no. It could be bad for humans? Then it’s time to act. Maybe. Later. Fuck humans, what about the minks? Or birds?
