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Benny Bunter

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It's gonna be a great time to pick up a cheap fur coat in Denmark.
Yes, very good tea.

Seriously though is culling 17 million of these animals justified? (Putting aside the ethical issues around the horrible fur industry)

And if its so widespread in mink resulting in a cull, what about other farm animals? Could we conceivably see culling of cows and sheep etc on a grand scale?

I ask cos i have really no idea of what the risks are and thought someone here might know.
 

chava

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Yes, very good tea.

Seriously though is culling 17 million of these animals justified? (Putting aside the ethical issues around the horrible fur industry)

And if its so widespread in mink resulting in a cull, what about other farm animals? Could we conceivably see culling of cows and sheep etc on a grand scale?

I ask cos i have really no idea of what the risks are and thought someone here might know.

Huge ongoing debate in Denmark. To me it seems this was way overblown and will leave us Danes with a bill of around 3-4 billion euros..not to mention a huge constitutional crisis as the government hadn't the mandate to order an entire business shut down.
 

Benny Bunter

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Just the act of slaughtering 17 million animals like that is such an upsetting thing to contemplate. I think Luka's probably right, it's all part of some demonic pact.
 

Benny Bunter

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But does anyone know about the possibility of other animals catching and spreading the virus to humans? Have there been other culls apart from minks, or are they just seen as especially susceptible or something?

I seem to remember a story about a tiger that caught it earlier on in the pandemic but I'm more on about farm animals, cows and so on.
 

yyaldrin

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Just the act of slaughtering 17 million animals like that is such an upsetting thing to contemplate. I think Luka's probably right, it's all part of some demonic pact.
well, these animals would've been slaughtered anyway right? at least that industry is gone now.
 

chava

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No practical sense but I'm sure we all agree that it's good and just that they be harshly punished for their stupidity.

Its pure chaos. There's a "bonus" for culling the mink as quickly as possible, truckloads of mink are dumped all over, dead mink dropped from trucks on the highway and now the army is getting involved. Not to mention a pretty tough local lockdown in the related provinces. Thousands of families in distress (i expect some suicides from this) and hundreds of Eastern European workers losing their job overnight and have to leave the country because of our pretty draconian migrant policies.

Meanwhile politicians are fighting over whether this was constitutional or not (it wasnt), who really ordered it, which experts told them to (hardly anyone, not even WHO).
The legitimacy of the general corona response is going way down as well because of this.
Something is truly rotten in Denmark and the only good thing to be said is perhaps that the industry is hardly something to be proud of in the first place and it had pretty dire future prospects as well.
 
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