{"id":762302,"date":"2020-11-27T08:10:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762302"},"modified":"2020-11-27T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T13:57:26","slug":"the-tears-of-a-clown-danish-pm-shed-tears-for-mink-farmer-not-for-the-mass-killing-of-17-million-innocent-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=762302","title":{"rendered":"TEARS FOR FEAR: Danish PM shed tears for mink farmers, NOT for mass killing of 17 million innocent animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>'We have two generations of mink farmers, who have had their life's work shattered. It has been emotional for them, and it has for me too', Danish PM Frederiksen said with a wavering voice.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>REUTERS:<\/strong> Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday (Nov 26) when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the Danish government&#8217;s order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The order was given after authorities found Covid-19 outbreaks at hundreds of mink farms, including a new strain of the virus, suspected of being able to compromise the efficacy of vaccines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Frederiksen has faced opposition calls to resign and a vote of no confidence in Danish Parliament after an order by the government in early November, which it later admitted was illegal, to cull the country&#8217;s entire mink population&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have two generations of really skilled mink farmers, father and son, who in a very, very short time have had their life&#8217;s work shattered,&#8221; Ms Frederiksen told reporters after a meeting with a mink farmer and his son at their farm near Kolding in Western Denmark.&#8221;It has been emotional for them, and&#8230; Sorry. It has for me too,&#8221; Ms Frederiksen said with a wavering voice, pausing for breath in between words&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Denmark has proposed a ban on all mink breeding in the country until 2022. Mr Tage Pedersen, head of the Danish mink breeders&#8217; association, said this month the industry, which employs around 6,000 people and exports fur pelts worth US$800 million (S$1,071 million) annually, is finished. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.todayonline.com\/world\/danish-pm-tears-after-visiting-mink-farmer-whose-animals-were-culled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DwJTOpMZZpU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REUTERS: Denmark&#8217;s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday (Nov 26) when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the Danish government&#8217;s order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus&#8230; The order was given after authorities found Covid-19 outbreaks at hundreds of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18,20,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,37],"class_list":["post-762302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-justice","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762302"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762313,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762302\/revisions\/762313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/762308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}