Fur fight

New York has become the first state in the nation to ban, uh, certain methods of euthanizing animals that are harvested for their fur.

Yes, we are talking about anal and genital electrocution. (But you suspected that, didn’t you?)

State Sen. Frank Padavan even said of this fur fight, “I draw a very strong correlation between how we treat domestic animals and all animals and how we treat each other.”

Soon, mink, foxes, chinchillas and rabbits will go to that Great Big Zoo in the sky via other methods — in New York, that is. In the other 49 states, it’s still business as usual.

Two points:

1) Sen. Padavan is making a biiiiig leap in comparing this curious practice to “how we treat each other.”

2) It’s hard to argue in favor of this kind of electrocution. It does sound creepy. But I’m not sure that one way of euthanizing an animal is much more humane than another as long as the critter doesn’t feel unnecessary pain — or preferably any pain.

As the Bard put it in Macbeth, “If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.”