animals

Virologists believe that this type of flu – which has already forced fifty million poultry to be culled in Europe – currently poses the greatest risk of a devastating pandemic. And they have been put on alert because, they say, this fact shows that the virus jumps with joy from bugs that fly to mammals like us. In other words, we are in danger. Again, the health aspect of the news can make us tremble –it seems that someone is very interested in us not lowering the level of fear–, but what shocks me is that there are still people capable of putting on a mink coat.

Because on this Galician farm alone, more than fifty thousand animals will die, which in any case were destined for sacrifice, to be skinned and turned into luxury garments for women –mostly– from all over the world. It’s one thing to put on the mink coat Grandma passed down to you, but continuing to breed, kill, and sew critters as an exercise in fashion, frankly, seems inhumane to me.