The world's largest fur manufacturer Kopenhagen Four announced the liquidation due to the destruction of animals in Denmark

The Danish company Kopenhagen Fur, which occupies 40% of the global mink fur market, will cease to exist in the next 2-3 years, the joint-stock company said .

The fur industry will not be able to exist in the kingdom after the decision of the authorities to exterminate the population of the minks because of the coronavirus mutating in animals.

“The government order of November 4 on the destruction of all Danish minks will not affect the upcoming sales season. <...> Unfortunately, the loss of the Danish industry of mink fur means that our owners will disappear ( the main shareholders of Kopenhagen Fur are Danish farmers - ed. ).

The administration & decided to liquidate the company and conduct controlled closure over the next 2-3 years, ”the press release says.

In the near future, manufacturers expect to get 5-6 million skins, which were killed from those killed during the operation to exterminate healthy minks. At the moment, Kopenhagen Fur has another six million Danish and unnamed number of foreign skins and expects that he can function normally all 2021.

“Today I reported more than 300 employees that we are closing,” said the CEO of the company, Jesper Kristensen. In 2022 and 2023, the company also hopes to conduct auctions.

On November 4, members of the Cabinet of Ministers Denmark announced at a press conference on the order to kill all minks-from 12 to 17 million individuals for 1100 zooforms of the kingdom. Animals convey to people the mutated coronavirus Cluster 5, which is distinguished by a reduced susceptibility to vaccines due to changes in the “spike” pertens.

The authorities attracted the police and the army to the destruction of Mugs, and also turned to farmers with the recommendation to kill the animals themselves. By November 9, about 2.5 million minks have already been killed in the country, according to food management data . Some farmers also report that they destroyed tens of thousands of individuals with their own hands.

The exact number of clogged animals is unknown. In published pictures, you can see that military personnel dump the already refreshed carcasses of minks into the ditches.

On November 10, Folketing (Denmark Parliament) said that the government exceeded the powers, ordering the fullest to exterminate the population of the minks in the kingdom. This fact was recognized by the Prime Minister and Minister of Food.

According to the current law, the Cabinet of Ministers may require the owners of the farms to kill the animal only if it is infected or is under a radius of 7.8 km from infected individuals. In order to exterminate all the minks in the country, regardless of their state of health, the government had to propose a bill to the parliament. The Minister of Food Association, Maysen Jensen, motivated the decision not to consult with the deputies by the fact that the spread of the mutation of the “mink” coronavirus threatened the new pandemia with the center in Denmark and required a quick reaction.

Now the draft law awaits the hearing in folking, and the order of the order to kill all the minks is suspended. Now ministers are offering not only to exterminate the animal population in the kingdom, but also to prohibit farmers to breed minks until 2022.

The largest opposition faction in the parliament - Venus - expressed the willingness to provide the government as the majority of the law on extermination of minks only if the Cabinet guarantees compensation for farmers. The approval of the law requires votes of 2/3 of the parliament. Separate fractions require the resignation of Minister Jensen and investigation against the Cabinet and Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen.

Denmark has been engaged in the production of mink fur for more than 90 years and currently remains a global leader in the industry - annually the sale of fur and products from it brings the country 0.5 billion euros, and the country's enterprises occupy 40% of the world market.

The SSI Institute reported on Thursday that since the summer, 214 cases of transmission of new types of coronavirus from minks have been recorded in the country. Five new strains are called Cluster. At the same time, only the last, fifth Cluster causes concern among experts - 12 people infected them.

Because of this, Britain closed the border for the Danes, and the authorities of Denmark completely isolated the North Jutland region with a population of about 600 thousand people-the epicenter of the spread of the “mink” Covid-19. In the seven communes, quarantine was introduced on the peninsula and the movement of public transport was left. Also on the peninsula, mass testing of the population began.

According to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO), new coronavirus mutations were found in many more countries - these are the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the USA. About the cases of transferring the virus from animals to people in these countries at the moment, nothing is known.