Mink farming: Denmark’s loss is China’s gain amid mass cull over Covid-19 fears, Danish professor says

The sudden Covid-19-related culling of as many as 17 million mink in Denmark has shaken the fur industry. Television footage shows breeders weeping outside their empty farms as thousands of dead mink are taken away to be transformed into biofuel. Because of the risk of infection, only around one third of the pelts can be saved. T he world’s largest fur auction house, Kopenhagen Fur, has announced that it will close by 2023 because of the cull. So what led to this disastrous turn of events and…

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