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So if I'm understanding this correctly, it sounds like we gave the minks COVID-19, the virus mutated and then the minks gave it back to the Danes. Yikes. I wonder what challenges we'll unlock on chapter 12 of Apocalypse 2020.
It’s suspected that something similar like this happened to create the 1918 Flu Pandemic, except the theory is that it was a human (and maybe a chicken too) giving the flu to a pig where it mutated into something much more virulent than normal.
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It has to be rage infected monkeys next.
I’m expecting more of a locust type situation next.
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Well, that problem is solved, but there are new ones. Once no one needs minks for coats, they just wipe them out as nuisances, making them endangered or extinct. As it is, I believe the mink has been eradicated from many parts of the world. Now, we may not need mink. But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.
> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around. Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
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Well, that problem is solved, but there are new ones. Once no one needs minks for coats, they just wipe them out as nuisances, making them endangered or extinct. As it is, I believe the mink has been eradicated from many parts of the world. Now, we may not need mink. But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.
> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around. Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
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> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around. Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
"Being around" as a farmed animal may bear little relation to being around as a free, wild creature. Given a few generations, we tend to turn the animals we farm into a parody of the original creature. How well would the average battery chicken survive if it were set free?
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Meat provides a lot of nutrition.
So does other food. A fur coat provides a lot of warmth. So does other clothing. Let's not go down the motte-and-bailey rabbit hole of suggesting our vices are simply utilitarian.
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Well, that problem is solved, but there are new ones. Once no one needs minks for coats, they just wipe them out as nuisances, making them endangered or extinct. As it is, I believe the mink has been eradicated from many parts of the world. Now, we may not need mink. But at least making coats from them mean they will be around.
> But at least making coats from them mean they will be around. Being around means nothing to the individual minks being caged and slaughtered
It's hard to tell if the life they live makes some difference for the individual
It's hard for us humans to fathom it, but is it for them?
We still don't know for sure.
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So if I'm understanding this correctly, it sounds like we gave the minks COVID-19, the virus mutated and then the minks gave it back to the Danes. Yikes. I wonder what challenges we'll unlock on chapter 12 of Apocalypse 2020.
It has to be rage infected monkeys next.