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Fur Industry Faces Uncertain Future Due to Covid

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BM.GE
24.11.20 13:00
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Europe's fur industry is back in the spotlight after Denmark's mass culling of millions of mink following an outbreak of coronavirus at farms in the country - BBC reports.
 
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced that all mink would be slaughtered. Denmark is the world's biggest mink producer, farming up to 17 million of the animals, and Covid has swept through a quarter of its 1,000 mink farms.
 
Officials say this "reservoir" of disease poses a significant health risk for humans and worry that mutations detected in mink-related strains of the virus might compromise a future vaccine.
 
But images of mink mass graves and farmers in tears were followed by outcry after the government admitted its order had no legal basis. The agriculture minister has since resigned. On Saturday, hundreds of tractors drove into central Copenhagen to protest about the handling of the crisis. There have also been protests in the cities of Aalborg and Aarhus.
 
The proposed ban on mink farming until 2022 now has parliamentary backing, but negotiations over compensation are dragging out.
 
Read more here.