The 2020 Danish mink cull was the government-mandated slaughter of all roughly 17 million mink that were being raised on farms for their fur in Denmark. The cull started in September in response to the detection of Cluster 5, an outbreak of a novel variant of SARS-CoV-2, in the mink during the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark.

The Mink Commission submitted its report to the parliament's Scrutiny Committee on 30 June 2022, and determined that there was no legal authority to demand that all mink be killed, and found that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen grossly misled the population on the press conference on 4 November 2020.

2022年2月18日 · Minks who are still alive when it is time to kill them are gassed to death to preserve their fur. An Open Cages investigation reported by Taylor Meek for Sentient Media in 2021 found that the gas box was not enough to kill the minks:

2020年11月19日 · The Danish government ordered mink farmers to slaughter the country’s 17 million mink—and has been in hot water ever since. But the damage to a century-old industry is already done. By Lisa...

Denmark went so far as to cull 17 million minks in November in response to outbreaks at more than 200 mink farms. The northern region of the country, where most fur farms lie, was placed under...

2020年11月11日 · There was shock last week when Denmark decided to cull all its mink - up to 17 million animals - because of the spread of coronavirus. That national cull has turned into a political outcry, now...

2022年7月1日 · On Friday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark apologized to the country’s mink farmers after a damning report released this week blamed top officials for mishandling the cull and said...

2020年11月30日 · Denmark plans to dig up thousands of dead mink culled to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, after the animals started to rise out of their mass graves. Hundreds of dead mink emerged from...

2022年7月14日 · COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CN) — Denmark has finally closed the book on one of the most bizarre legal cases in recent national history, after an independent judicial body released a 1,500-page report outlining failures by several senior officials in the government's decision to kill all minks on Danish farms at the height of the pandemic.

2020年11月10日 · The Danish government has admitted there was no legal basis for the mass cull of farmed mink it ordered after a mutated version of the coronavirus was found in the animals.