03/11/2020
At this very moment, millions of mink are being culled after a covid19 outbreak on Danish mink farms.
It started 10 days ago, when the Danish government ordered the cull on all farms tested positive for Covid and all farms in a 7.8 kilometer radius of an infected farm.
So far, more than 100 farms has been tested positive and at first the number of mink to be gassed because of this decision was 1.5 million, then 2.5 million and the latest number from the mink fur industry themselves, says 4.6 million mink will be killed. This unbelievable number will most probably only rise.
Denmark is the biggest producer of mink fur in the world, more than 18 million mink are bred and killed here every year.
Luckily, the industry has been struggling financially and this outbreak is a massive loss for them, why they are also protesting and demanding huge subsidies, which they will probably succeed with.
Many farmers are also protesting by refusing to let the authorities kill their mink (those hired to kill are apparently cheap, unexperienced people), so the police are called to force entry. Others are protesting by leaving their farms, forcing others to go and feed the starving mink.
This cull will go on and on many months ahead.
Most of this is happening in the northern part of Denmark, Northern Jutland, where there is countless mink farms, so I went there to document the horrors.
I have never in my life witnessed something like this, it's like hell mixed with a bad episode of twilight zone, like a world gone mad, really mad. Countless, huge dumpsters topped with dead mink, government cars driving around the area, the smell of death and rotten corpses everywhere and an overall, latent, post apocalyptic mood.
I know no words on how horrific this is, there just are no words to really describe it.
But there might be some good news, though it is too soon to tell, but many farmers says they will go bankrupt, while others say they don't dare to start up again while there's a pandemic. On top of that, the industry fears that new, younger mink farmers will not dare to start up new businesses.
Peace!