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At that time, a couple of men in the village of Kerbušiai were planning to start a breeding business for these fine-haired animals. Minks are now in the crosshairs of the terrified world of the coronavirus.
As nature lovers battled tissue torture in the fur business, these unfortunate animals were also attacked by a mutated coronavirus. Six countries – Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the United States – have already reported the emergence of a new SARS-CoV-2 virus in tissue farms, causing the same COVID-19 disease.
According to the researchers, fine-grained animals infected with the human coronavirus have become favorable reservoirs for it to mutate. And the worst thing is that the virus can easily return the changed virus to humans and other animals, including cats.
The world taught by the coronavirus is no longer waiting and attacking the destruction of new vectors. Denmark has taken the most drastic measures. He orders the destruction of animals kept in the focus and on farms around 7.8 km around it.
Atsirito panika
About 100 tissue farms are registered in Lithuania, about 1.3 – 1.5 million are cultivated on them. won. Such a business is most popular in Šiauliai, Radviliškis districts. In the Panevėžys district, the cloth farm is located in the village of Žibartoniai.
Here 96 thousand. Vilkijos ūkis, the Česlovas Tallat-Kelpša company, director of the Lithuanian Animal Breeders Association, breeds animal skins. This company has another farm in Kaunas district.
“The fears have really arisen in our sector, we urge employees to watch the animals, go to them only what is necessary, wear masks. However, we are in no rush to take radical action, ”says the tissue grower. The government has not yet specified new requirements for such farms. Breeders are simply asked to more closely monitor the health of the animals and their keepers. Suspicions of a new virus should be reported to the responsible State Food and Veterinary Office (SFVS). The latter does not yet go to the tissue farms or inspect them.
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Different conditions
C. According to Tallat-Kelpša, the mutated coronavirus is even more dangerous than its predecessor because it can move between humans and animals. However, according to him, Lithuanian tissue farms have fewer conditions for the spread of the virus than in Denmark.
“We keep our animals in open outdoor areas, shelters and longer distances. In Denmark, the concentration of tissues is much higher and the number of farms per country is very high, more than a thousand. Several dozen farms can be found there in the 7.8 km hazard radius, which is now being used, ”says Č. Tallat-Kelpša. Danish farmers, he said, were already in a rush to “harvest” without waiting for the end of the fabric season.
Although it would take at least a couple of weeks for the fur of these animals to fully grow out, the state is making up for the initial work there.
“Initially, Denmark had decided to sleep and use all the tissues. Now danger areas have been identified and the skin can be worked where there is no danger. The state pays 22 crowns per animal to speed up such activities”, Č. Tallat-Kelpša. In Lithuania, tissue producers are in no hurry while the disease is still abroad.
According to the president of the association, the new disease is not terrible for the tissues themselves: these animals contract the virus easily, especially if they have been vaccinated against pneumonia. In Lithuanian farms, according to the interlocutor, all tissues usually receive this vaccine.
Expected problems
According to Č.Tallat-Kelpša, the fabric business in Lithuania is shrinking because the market is already saturated. And once the Lithuanians grew more than 2 million. tissues. All these products grown in our country are exported. A mink fur in Lithuania now costs between 16 and 20 euros.
This, according to the president, is the lowest price of a product of this type in the last decade. The knitting season runs from spring, when the animals mate, to fall, when the skins are fed. Only the herd destined for the expansion of the variety remains for the winter. Four years ago, there were plans to start such a business in the Pasystri district. At that time, two men presented the old man with a project to build a cloth farm in the village of Kerbušiai.
“Even then, as if I had a clairvoyant, I predicted that we would not be on our way with such a matter,” jokes Virginijus Šležas, the oldest in Paistri. According to the interlocutor, one day a book of almost 500 pages on a beautiful fur vision of the area appeared on his desk.
After purchasing a non-residential house in Kerbuši, the authors intended to accommodate almost 30 thousand people on the installed roofs. tissues. “The project is planned in a remote location between two more houses. In one of them there were still residents, whom the residents asked in a “beautiful” way – they ordered to sell the farm and move, otherwise they would have had concerns, “says the elder.
© What is happening in the Kaunas photo.
Investors did not let in
V. Šležis did not like the arrogance of the newcomers with the bulldozers and the idea that the odors of ferret-like animals and the parasites that attack them would spread through the densely populated garden communities of Puodžiūnai and Poisio.
“It was at that moment that the project’s environmental impact assessment began. It should have had my signature too, but I decided not to approve of the idea and would even create people around me to oppose the unconventional farm on the sidelines. Cow and pig farms are common to us with their own smells, and here is something completely different, ”recalls the old man.
He also claimed to have used the means and competitors of spammers in this fight. These investors were so exhausted with their smart questions and comments that the noise has moved to state authorities. The National Center for Public Health was asked to evaluate the project for its health consequences. Here the vision of the tissues was turned off.
“As now with this project: if he is overwhelmed or when he will return, we do not know, we have not received any response on his completion. But those boys in disguise didn’t come back to our country anyway. The farm they bought ends up collapsing abandoned, ”says V. Šležas.
He does not even doubt that, in the face of the current pandemic, tissue farms would undoubtedly disturb the peace of the population.
Monitors returning emigrants
Regina Abromaitytė, head of the Public Health Safety Division of the National Center for Public Health, explained that this service was not obliged to evaluate the planned tissue farm in the Paistriis nursing home. Although documents were prepared for this purpose, the project was not approved. And the investors themselves didn’t show up after that.
“According to the number of animals indicated, it had to be a small farm. Therefore, we are not obliged to evaluate it. We don’t know how the project finally ended, “said R. Abromaitytė.
The unrest in Denmark made this service remember textiles. Due to the monitoring and control of the coronavirus, the poor employees of NVSC were instructed to follow the absence of emigrants returning to Lithuania from Danish textile farms. According to Žydrūnas Vaišvila, Director of the Panevėžys Department of the State Food and Veterinary Service, tissue farms in Lithuania are regularly inspected, also in Žibartoniai. Here, the inspectors have not yet found any irregularities and claim that the farm is working properly, complying with all the regulations.
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