Hong Kong's hamster cull: how can the government say it had 'no choice'? | South China Morning Post

Further to my letter on the ill-executed wild boar bait-and-cull policy ("Wild boar cull a total public relations failure", January 3), I am shocked by the Hong Kong government's decision to euthanise more than 2,000 hamsters, chinchillas and rabbits. On the one hand, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) admitted that there is no literature in the world showing that pets can transmit Covid-19 to humans, but on the other, it said it had been left with "no choice" but to cull the animals out of an abundance of caution, citing the precedent of Denmark's mink cull . There…