#mink culling

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I still have not forgiven Denmark for the 2020 mink genocide and i don't think i ever will Like, for real, what the actual FUCK Denmark??? You killed 17 million defenceless animals???

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Coronavirus and the mink: Death in a fur coat | DW | 12.01.2021

The mass killing of Danish minks shines a spotlight on a highly dubious industry. It also shows how little we value the lives and deaths of so-called farm animals.

The pictures from Denmark are hard to bear. They show minks being gassed and millions of the animals being buried in mass graves using excavators.

But such mass killings of animals are neither unique nor new. Whether it's a matter of bird flu, swine fever, mad cow disease or foot-and-mouth disease, millions of chickens, cattle and pigs are regularly killed to contain epidemics.

And now it's the minks' turn.

The reason was that some animals had become infected with a mutated version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19 in humans. There was immense fear the viral mutation could jump back to humans, further fueling the pandemic, with the additional risk that a vaccine could be useless against the new strain.

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The mink cull was not restricted to Denmark. The Netherlands, France and Spain are amongst a number of countries that have