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DeLauro Proposes Adding Mink to Lacey Act

The chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, with a bipartisan group of co-sponsors, is proposing that minks raised for fur production be added to the Lacey Act. That would prevent the sale, possession or transportation of captive American mink…

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and their pelts. The text of MINKS are Superspreaders Act was published July 30. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., was joined by 18 co-sponsors, including seven Republicans, led by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and the ranking member of the Trade Subcommittee on Ways and Means. The change would take effect one year after enactment. “The factory farming of mink threatens public health, especially as we continue fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic,” DeLauro said in a press release when the bill was introduced. “The evidence is clear: mink operations can incubate and spread new COVID-19 variants and pose a unique threat of extending the pandemic. At the same time, with virtually no domestic market, the U.S. mink industry has been in steady decline for years. Now is the time for this legislation to become law, and I am urging all of my colleagues to support this bipartisan effort.”