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Denmark had millions of minks euthanized for fear of a mutated corona virus. Now the corpses threaten to contaminate drinking water. The government is now considering digging up the bodies again.
The Danish government is considering unearthing the millions of minks slaughtered for fear of rotting gases and pollution. Danish Agriculture Minister Rasmus Prehn spoke in favor of this on TV2.
The government fears that the decomposition process of animal carcasses could release large amounts of phosphorous and nitrogen into the soil and thus contaminate drinking or bathing water.
The minister noted that such an exhumation would require the approval of the Danish environmental authority. However, the idea has already been debated in parliament, where it has the support of a majority. Together with the other parliamentary parties and responsible authorities, they want to analyze whether it is the right approach to dig up the minks and then burn them.
Danger from mutated coronavirus
The Danish government ordered the slaughter of up to 17 million minks in the country in early November after a mutated, human-transmissible form of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus was discovered in some breeding farms in North Jutland. Consequently, there was a risk that the mutation would render future vaccines ineffective. According to the latest figures, around ten million minks have already been killed and buried in Denmark.
A few days ago, the carcasses of fur animals were driven to the surface of the earth due to rotting gases in a makeshift mass grave that was created at a military site.
The Minister of Agriculture had resigned
The mass slaughter of fur animals has sparked much debate in Denmark. In the course of this, then-Agriculture Minister Mogens Jensen resigned, having previously admitted that there was no legal basis for the slaughter of all minks in the country.
