Mink Farms in Denmark

I'm not vegetarian or vegan but our diet includes meat maybe twice a week. The meat comes from our butcher, the lamb is his and we see it wandering the moors. Everything else is locally and sustainably sourced.
I write this without feeling any pride in the fact I haven't given up animal products. I enjoy animal products and try to do what I can to ensure the lives they live before slaughter are happy. I am uneasy about slaughter of course I am. Our butcher slaughters his own lambs. He is a lovely man who loves his beasts. Either we give up meat and dairy and leave men like him unemployed or we continue to do what we can to ensure animal welfare is central.
As for mink and other farm firms. Just stop it. We do not need fur products. Its cruel and unnecessary.

Meanwhile there is an outbreak of bird flu in Germany, Holland and France.

Anyone who thinks we have high animal welfare standards in the U.K. should see some videos of abattoirs, cattle prodded into line to get their throats cut any other a distressing journey, chicken farms where male chicks are chucked onto a conveyor belt and crushed, pigs crated so they can’t move, tiny quails kept in disgusting conditions for their eggs, not to mention puppy farms, dog fights, badger baiting, fox hunting etc etc.

and it just shows how we must never give up those farming standards for meat production
Hear hear, biba.

I trust all you disgusted people are vegetarians.

Nope

But I can see the difference between keeping farm animals in humane conditions for omnivores to eat and keeping wild animals in cages for the vanity of wearing fur.

As long as there is a public demand for Mink fur products that demand will be met from somewhere in the world.

Just as we all know of poor employers in Britain, but as long as there is a customer base demand for their products or services they will remain as bad employers.

and it just shows how we must never give up those farming standards for meat production. US style farming is rife with such problems and only controlled with massive doses of anitbiotics to which we are getting resistant.

I trust all you disgusted people are vegetarians.

Not that I approve in the slightest of mink farms; I thought the use of animal fur was well on its way out. But I don't see a lot of difference between rearing animals for their fur and rearing them for meat.

Just wait until you find out about US animal welfare standards...

the mutated virus has now spread to mink in
Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, and USA;
acc to World Health Organisation.
any vaccine currently being developed is unlikely to be as effective against it.

If the virus has mutated in Europe and passed back to humans then we will never be rid of it even if we do have a vaccine.

I naively thought fur trading/farming was illegal. Show how ignorant I am!
Me too, boodymum67
I was astonished to hear this news report that a so-called civilised EU country farmed mink for the fur trade.

Mink skins amount to a 1/3 of Danish exports to China. Mmm, makes you think, doesn't it?
I'm even more astonished! Not that the Chinese would use fur but that they import the skins from an EU country.

Apparently the Dutch have these farms as well
Italian mink farms
I must be very naive.

One of the reasons I voted to leave the EU was their dismal animal welfare record! There were other reasons as well, but this was a definite consideration.

Makes you sick actually! I just hope that this outbreak will put an end to these farms once and for all! At least something good will have come out of this awful virus!

Mink skins amount to a 1/3 of Danish exports to China. Mmm, makes you think, doesn't it?

Always profit at the expense of welfare. The conditions are appalling, short lives filled with fear. Some fake fur is actually real so I avoid all fur now. The other point to note is that the virus is spreading again from species to species in part at least because of the condition the animals are kept in. This seems to be a lesson that we refuse to learn. There's always a price to pay.

The Spanish and Italian mink farms now have the virus.

200 people in Denmark have the mink mutation of the virus and it is thought that this version will not respond to the vaccines that are being developed at the moment

Whilst I agree with everything said, we are not that good in a lot of areas either ....hens and pigs in particular are sometimes kept in awful conditions in some places in U.K. and what about animals used for testing Its alright to be infuriated by other countries but we need to be clean ourselves I don’t eat meat and never buy eggs other than free range

It is unfortunate for the animal kingdom that Man evolved.

Post covid19, I wonder if any lessons will be have been learned?

Why does the sanctimonious EU allow this slaughter?!! If those live sheep are being transported within the UK, they should be ok. It's when they get to the continent that regulations are chucked in the bin poor things!

Hopefully it will put an end to their mink farms for good.

Yuk! What disgusting people, why on earth.does Denmark allow this completely unnecessary slaughter?!!

I wonder about the Danish - take a look at this travel.earth/whale-slaughter-tradition-denmark/

So, add the poor mink to this and we don't appear to have a very animal friendly country.

I saw a lorry load of live sheep this week....in Yorkshire

I agree Iam64. When we bought a new duvet, we made very sure that it was NOT feathers and down! I told the retailer why we wouldn't entertain one, and they were pretty shocked to learn of the dreadful cruelty associated with them! Ditto angora rabbits! You don't want to know!!! I know the further East you go the worse the cruelty is towards these helpless creatures, but I didn't cover expect it in Denmark or the Netherlands come to that!