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Fur has had a rough few years. As household budgets locked down during recessions and Covid, fur and luxury goods in general tanked. (Overall prices are still so high, some call Starbucks, Sevenbucks.) But Covid was especially harmful to the fur industry.

Why? Mink farms were hotbeds of the virus, infecting humans in two-way transfers. Minks are integral to the zoonotic transfer of pandemic-capable viruses like Covid and Bird Flu which is why

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