STOCKHOLM: Danish Prime Minister Mitt Frederiksen presented an apology to the mink breeder on Thursday Mass executions of this animal.
“I think there is a reason to apologize for this operation,” she said, adding, “I have no problem apologizing for this operation, because mistakes were made.”
Frederiksen’s comments came after she visited a family in Gotland, western Denmark, who had to cull all their mink animals. “It was touching,” Fredricksen told reporters, with tears in her eyes.
“We have two generations of really good mink breeders – father and son – who witnessed in a very short time the destruction of their livelihood.”
Earlier this month, the government ordered the culling of all minks, but it was later forced to admit that they lacked a proper legal basis to do so. The Minister of Food and Fisheries resigned last week.
The death warrant was issued after discovering that a mutated type of Corona Virus It is transmitted between mink animals and humans.
Concerns centered on one of the five viral variants associated with mink, which was found to impair humans’ ability to form antibodies and may render future vaccines ineffective.
By the weekend, about 9 million of the 17 million minks in Denmark have been culled.
(Dpa)
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