Recently, a woman in Jiangsu washed her 10,000 yuan mink coat by hand, but it became a specimen. The coat was shrunk to become children's clothing, and the fur on the fur was clumpy, looking very hard, and even stood up. Fur such expensive clothes can not be worn after washing with water, and the parties are angry. But when we think it's funny that someone washed a mink coat with water, we don't know that behind every mink coat, at least 15 mink lives are sacrificed in exchange.
The short life of a mink
Mink is native to the weasel family in Europe and the Americas. Wild mink is small, about 50-60 cm long and weighs about 2 pounds. Mink are cautious by nature and are usually nocturnal, living mainly near water. American mink are currently kept in captivity around the world.
Because of its soft and warm characteristics, mink hair has become one of the most popular animal hairs in the world, especially in cold Europe and North America. These furry little ones will be processed into mink coats when they grow up, and the snow-white fur of the mink can bring business opportunities.
Because the killing of wild mink is prohibited, many farms have started breeding artificial mink. They would imprison the minks in two iron cages, unaware that they would be skinned and cramped as soon as they were about to turn one year old.
Mink a child, will give birth to six or seven babies, just born mink is not the size of the palm, mink baby because of the need to drink milk so can live with the mother for two months, but other mink have to live in a single room. In order to avoid economic losses caused by mink injuring their fur during a fight, workers must isolate the mink to ensure the quality of their fur.
The high demands on the quality of fur also make farms very demanding for feeding mink. Individuals of different ages will strictly control growth and provide food on time and in quantity to produce high-quality fur. They eat heartily every day.
Mink are omnivores, and in addition to grains, meat and fish are also their favorite foods. The machine crushes the fish, beats it into fish puree, presses it into a square, then freezes and stores it, and then transports it to the farm, every morning the workers thaw the fish puree in advance, and then feed the mink through the feeding truck, the pipe mouth, in addition to the fish meat, the workers will also prepare dried vegetables, meat sausages, etc. for the mink, according to the specific situation to add meals, in order to make them grow healthily.
It seems that the minks have had a life of food and clothing, but they are trapped in an iron cage, and they may not have seen a beautiful sunset in their lives. Workers will inspect mink every day, including weighing, assessing coat color, etc., and will label them when they meet the factory requirements, which means that they will soon usher in the end of their lives.
How are mink made into coats?
The crew will put the qualified mink into a special tin box with a high degree of carbon monoxide, and when the mink enters, it will die as if it were asleep, without struggling, and die very quietly. After the death, the ferret is sent to an animal processing plant after its body has completely cooled, and workers use machines to remove the mink's fur.
Ensure that the finished product is perfect, then dry and stretch the mink skin to ensure the quality of the mink skin. The remaining parts of the mink's body are processed into pet feed, or biofuel, after all, they eat so well and exert their residual heat after death.
Each native fur undergoes a complex screening, identification and storage process that is rigorous. Denmark is the world's largest producer and exporter of furs, and every mink skin exported will be printed with basic information about the mink, such as which farm it came from, the time of growth, etc. These words are like the eulogy of each mink.
How to distinguish between mink qualities
Nowadays, a cheap fur coat also costs thousands of pieces, and the expensive hundreds of thousands are possible. It's all made of mink, so why is the price gap so large?
Mink is divided into domestic mink and imported mink. Domestic mink are generally cheaper because their needle hairs are very long, they look like weeds, and the quality is relatively poor. Imported mink is generally divided into American mink and Danish mink. In fact, american mink is rarely seen on the market, and it is almost impossible to buy. It is nothing more than a short two-haired Danish mink that is better and a less short Danish mink. The Danish mink with short two hairs has short needle hairs, and the bottom fluff is very sufficient and soft, which can be called the upper product, and vice versa.
Why can't mink wash?
As long as the fur is washed, it is a word "waste", and the mink fur can only be dry cleaned. Because the length of the mink is only about 60 cm, and the price is very expensive, as mentioned above, when making mink coats with mink, the mink will be pulled very large to reduce the use of raw materials. And the washed fur version will also change, because the animal does not have a three-dimensional, if you want to make the coat version is to add some fat additives, tanning agents and so on with the board to make it shaped.
So after washing, the mink coat will become one-third of the original, which looks smaller, but in fact, it is just a return to its original appearance. The dried fur will be very hard, and even cause dry cracks, which cannot be worn at all, and can only be used as a cushion. So the fur must be dry cleaned. Of course, there are many things that cannot be washed in dry cleaning, so you can only use a special fur cleaner to wipe away the dirt on the surface.
Pet mink
As people's perceptions of protecting animals grew, many people began to boycott mink coats. Even treat them like pets.
Because mink is very cute, and it is reported that pet minks have an IQ of 30 times that of dogs, coupled with their very docile, more and more people treat mink as pets, of course, it is also a way to protect animals. But remind everyone to do your homework well, and if you raise it, don't abandon it.
First of all, mink has body odor, manufacturers will deodorize them before leaving the factory, but this will only make them stinky fart, their own body odor can not be eradicated. Secondly, the poop of mink is not as easy to clean as the feces of cats and dogs, which is very troublesome. Also, mink is not particularly clingy and won't let you play with it like a dog, because they can really sleep and don't have time.
In short, people only saw the elegant coat in the window, but did not see the mink in the iron cage that only cried. They seem to be saying, "I'm so cold, because you've worn my skin." ”
Just turned one year old they will be skinned and cramped, only because this snow-white hair can bring business opportunities to people, no trade, no harm, this is not a slogan, but action, calling on everyone to better not buy clothes made of animal fur, treat animals well at the same time be kind to themselves.