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The 2020-2022 Danish mink culling scandals (Danish:: Minksagen, lit. The Mink Case) is a series of scandals involving the culling off all 13.5 million mink farmed for their fur in Denmark starting at November 4, 2020, after it was discovered that COVID-19 had spread to mink and higher risk of disease spread was feared. It was later becoming clear that the orders were given without legal basis and were instead politically motivated.
The government then put forward a bill, which, with its adoption on December 21, 2020, established legal authority behind the culling order. In the meantime, the culling continued illegally with the help of the police, and other authorities. Large quantities were buried in mass graves, but later exhumed and disposed of by incineration, because the buried carcasses posed the danger of polluting the local groundwater.
In addition, a ban on mink breeding was established in 2021, and later extended until December 31, 2022. As of 2022, the scandal is estimated to have caused kr. 20 billion (US$3 billion) in financial damages. Payment of financial compensation to mink breeders is expected to be finished in 2027.
Mette Frederiksen, Prime Minister of Denmark, who gave out the culling orders, later described the case as a political scandal. [citation needed]