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A truck packed to the brim with corpses heads to a mass grave in Denmark, dumps its load, and then drives off again. There were hundreds of dead minks in the cargo. The reason for the slaughter of the animals: A mutated form of the coronavirus is sweeping Danish breeding farms.
Danish authorities have decided to kill the minks because this form of the coronavirus could allegedly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.
Disaster for farmers, suffering animals
In the coming days, between 15 and 17 million minks are expected to be killed in Denmark. gassed. About 1.9 million have died so far, but not all die immediately: some survive the ordeal and suffer, locked in containers. The veterinary office now wants to make sure such incidents are avoided.
The farmer Bjorke, who comes from Hobro (Denmark), tells the newspaper “Bild”: “It hurts my soul that it ends like this. My family has been involved in fur production since the eighth generation. I am losing millions of crowns. I don’t know how much I’ll get from the government. “
Mink farms in Denmark are always the target of criticism. In 2014, the animal rights organization Peta published a report stating that animals are kept in tiny cages and have to live short lives in degrading conditions. Animals are sometimes seriously injured.
America has problems too
There are also problems with minks and the coronavirus in the US: between 10,000 and 15,000 minks have died from the coronavirus. About a dozen farms are under quarantine.
“That will help us learn more about the transmission dynamics between mink and other animals and humans,” the United States health authority, the CDC, told the Keystone-SDA agency. There is currently no evidence that animals play a crucial role in transmitting the virus to humans. (my I)
