Holstebro (Denmark) (AFP) – Reinventing himself as a brewer at age 62 would never have occurred to Poul Erik Vestergaard, but Denmark’s controversial cull of the country’s minks over Covid fears forced him to change course. Authorities ordered the slaughter of the Nordic country’s farmed mink population — around 15,500 — in November 2020 following the discovery of a mutated strain of the coronavirus. After a two-year ban, Denmark will once again allow mink farming from January 2023. But for Vestergaard, his mink raising days are over.
