Today, Saturday, the Danish government announced its readiness to exhume and burn the carcasses of mink animals that were buried in the framework of the fight against the Corona pandemic, after the “scandal” of thousands of mink exhumed from their graves, and it appears that they were buried while they were still alive.
The government’s announcement came in response to political party and parliamentary suits to extract dead animals, as authorities used mass excavations in a hurry to bury minks.
At the beginning of this month, the government issued a decision to execute all “mink” animals in the country, after discovering the transmission of a mutated form of the Corona virus between mink and humans.
The number of mink animals raised on farms in Denmark is estimated at 17 million, with reports indicating that the authorities executed the majority of them.
Over the past days, several thousand of these animals emerged from their shallow graves in western Denmark after gases accumulated inside their bodies, in a scene that angered animal rights associations in the country.
The new Danish Minister of Agriculture, “Rasmon Brehn”, said Saturday, in a television interview, that from the first day of discovering this mutated virus, he wanted to get rid of all mink and burn them, a situation that may increase the anger of animal rights associations.
This “Brihan” statement comes as a position in support of the opinion of most of the parties represented in Parliament to exhume the mink burials in order to avoid an “environmental scandal” this time, especially since local press reports mentioned that the two burial sites in Gotland are very controversial, one near a bathing lake and the other not Far from a source of drinking water.
The sources say that the political class fears that the decomposition of dead animals will lead to pollution with phosphorous and nitrogen, and demands that they be destroyed by burning them, for example, and the gases emitted, especially drinking water and bathing water, can pollute.
And the former Danish Minister of Agriculture, “Mogens Jensen”, had already resigned 10 days ago, after the pressure he faced due to his mishandling of his country’s plan to execute the mink.
And last Thursday, local media reported pictures showing the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, crying while visiting the owner of “Menak Farm.” The government executed all the herd owned by him.
It is noteworthy that the move to cull all mink animals in Denmark, one of the largest breeding countries in the world, left the government suffering the consequences of the order, after it admitted that it did not have the legal basis to order the culling of animals without the disease.
