Denmark prohibits the breeding of “mink” .. what is the secret?

Denmark has passed a law banning the keeping of mink animals until January 1, 2022.

The law provides a legal basis for its decision to slaughter all these animals in order to combat the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, given that their number exceeds 15 million, and that Denmark is the largest exporter of them in the world.

The law was approved by a majority of parliament votes Monday, and it provides for the execution of minkes whose owners do not abide by the ban.

“The Danish mink farmers have sacrificed their work for the common good. We owe them a big thanks,” Agriculture Minister Rasmus Brahn said on Twitter, recalling the compensation mechanisms that had been adopted.

In early November, the Danish government ordered the killing of all 15 to 17 million mink animals in the country in an attempt to stop the spread of that strain, after it raised concerns about the effectiveness of any vaccine in the future.

Most of the minks have already been slaughtered since then, but the government of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen acknowledged a few days later that it had no legal basis to compel owners of healthy animals outside of the epidemic hotspots to slaughter them.

The mink is, to this day, the only animal that has been proven to be able to transmit Coronavirus infection from humans, or to transfer it itself to humans.