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Comecei a contribuir para esse projeto incrível de fotografia que revela todas as formas de exploração animal no mundo. Meu primeiro texto foi sobre o assassinato de visons na Espanha por estarem infectados com COVID-19. Os animais pagando com a vida pelos erros humanos, como sempre.

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The killing of mink on fur farms due to #COVID19 outbreaks is set to continue after an outbreak was discovered at a mink farm in Aragón province, Spain. . The mink were isolated and monitored closely after a number of workers became infected, but tests show that 87% of the animals have the virus. Health authorities have ordered 92,700 individuals to be killed, or 'culled', as the industry and media euphemistically name the process of ending innocent lives exploited for profit. . The coronavirus pandemic is a direct consequence of the unnatural and violent ways we interact with and treat animals. It should be a wake-up call for humanity to improve its relationship with other species and the natural world. As stated by Claire Bass (executive director of @hsiukorg) via @bbcnews: "One of the lessons we must learn from Covid-19 is that we cannot carry on pushing animals to the limit of their endurance without serious consequences for both animal and human health." . Prior to this recent order, the Netherlands carried out a culling program that terminated the lives of tens of thousands of mink. As we noted in a previous post, press photographer Olivier Middendorp lost his court case to be allowed to photograph the cull. Via @dutchnewsnl: "Judges sided with the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority, who argued the presence of the photographer would present ‘too great a danger to public health’. Middendorp had argued photographing the mass cull had ‘social significance’ given that it is likely to happen again." . Lack of transparency is one of the many strategies this industry employs to keep the general public in the dark about the violence that is inherent to these operations. . Visit the We Animals Archive for more mink farming images to help you tell this story: www.weanimalsarchive.org (link in our bio ➡️ @weanimals) . . 📷: Mink on a fur farm. Sweden, 2009. Jo-Anne McArthur/@djurrattsalliansen

Uma publicação compartilhada por We Animals Media (@weanimals) em 24 de Jul, 2020 às 7:24 PDT