The five Italian farms will be closed by law. No more animals raised and killed for the purpose of skinning them
It looks like che Covid-19 has brought a useful result, amidst so much pain and damage: the end of fur farming in Italy, sanctioned in the government’s next economic planning document. It will no longer be possible to breed animals for fur, a lucrative business that we still existed at the beginning of the third millennium, not even at the end of the ice age, in need of protection from the rigors of the climate. It was time, one might say: sixty thousand minks, every year, incomprehensibly lost their lives to the inordinate and unruly luxury of Italic sapiens devoid of modesty, shame and respect.
Italy finally follows about twenty other European countries, while in too many parts of the world animals are still bred for a “need” that is an understatement to define secondary.
The five local farms were nothing compared to the 70 in Russia or the unspeakable number of the Chinese ones, but symbolically it is a significant event, hoped for by endless campaigns of meritorious associations such as the Lav that have made the closure of the farms a flag battle. . The pandemic accelerated a process that would in any case have led to this result: the tens of thousands of mink suppressed in 2020 in Denmark because possibly infected with Sars-Cov-2 and the stop to reproductions in Italy were clear signs of the end being approached.
Farm minks have been infected by humans and, in turn, are potentially capable of returning the virus to the natural world, in other reservoir hosts that are always susceptible to being activated. Therefore a mortal danger that has probably given a decisive push towards the cessation of an anachronistic, cruel and frankly intolerable activity in a civilized country. The value of this decision is not only environmental and public health, but also, and perhaps above all, cultural: it puts an end to considering animals as commodities, as if they were materials with which to build sapiens’ societies. A distorted vision of the natural world that has its roots even in the philosophy of Descartes and in the fur trade of any animal that had the misfortune to be born with it. In Italy the last beaver is killed at the beginning of the nineteenth century in the Po valley and by now very few otters survive in some remote Lucana or Abruzzese rivers. But the trade in wild fur animals, despite having assumed monstrous proportions over time, is nothing compared to the industrial breeding of force-fed living beings, kept in appalling conditions and killed only for the vanity of some individual of a species that calls itself intelligent, but who does not understand that organisms are bundles of unrepeatable historical accidents, and not a set of machines tending towards man.
The workers of the sector will find a right and better place, while we care little about a sector that should have felt the thrill of the abyss to profit on the lives of sentient and suffering animals. It will mean that, with the well-known Italic inventiveness, it will make up for those high fashion shreds that needed fur, despite the possibility of alternative recycled fabrics. No punishment for another senseless sapiens activity that ends.
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