From colleagues of PrimaCremona.it the sensational images of the killing of thousands of mink in the farm located in Capralba, in the Cremona area. As in Denmark, the animals killed in a gas chamber and thrown with the tractor shovel into a bin.
The ordinance of the Ministry of Health
The decision to kill all the animals was made from the Ats Valpadana afterwards to the ordinance of the Ministry of Health which provides forkilling of all minks, also the reproducers, in the structures in which they reveal themselves cases of coronavirus positive animals, because of the high risk that animals could infect humans with a mutated form of the virus.
Felling of minks
In the breeding of Capralba, the largest in Italy with approx 28,000 animals, almost half of those bred for fur in Italy, have been found in recent months three cases of coronavirus-positive mink(even if the owner Giovanni Boccù had claimed that this was not the case).
This is the reason behind the decision of killing all the animals of the farm and incinerating the carcasses. The ordinance governing the matter explains in fact that “In case of suspicion of infection, the competent local authorities order the seizure of the farm, the blocking of the movement of animals, sewage, vehicles, equipment and the start of an epidemiological investigation. If the disease is confirmed, the mink from the farm are slaughtered ”.
And so the killing of 28 thousand mink began in Capralba. The images, shot and disseminated by the association Being Animals, were made with a drone and show the collection of killed animals, which after being killed in a gas chamber with carbon monoxide, are stored in special containers and then incinerated.
“We are outraged by these images they show thousands of helpless bodies, thrown as waste, but the killing of minks also took place in previous years, with the only difference that the animals killed this year in Capralba, instead of becoming furs, will be incinerated due to the high risk of contagion of the virus to humans“, He comments Simone Montuschi, president of Be Animals. “In the other 7 farms still active in Italy, the same is happening right now slaughter and, since there are no positive animals in those facilities, minks will become furs or garment inserts. Here is what should really indign us, the cruel killing of living beings for futile reasons, as well as the inaction of the Government, capable only of issuing an order that suspends farms until February 2021, a useless measure in the face of such a serious issue as the risk of contagion of mutated forms of the virus from animals to being human.”
Coronavirus infections with mink-related mutations have been detected in humans in the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa, Russia, the United States and the Faroe Islands, while coronavirus-positive mink has been detected in herds located in the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, United States, Sweden, Italy, Greece, France, Poland and Lithuania.
(Photo and video: Being Animals)
