Once the world's top mink exporter, Denmark commits to an outright ban on fur production after abandoning its proposed EU exemption.

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The Danish government has abandoned its controversial plans to seek an exemption from an EU-wide prohibition on keeping the species. The decision marks the beginning of the end for a trade that once saw millions of minks confined to barren wire cages for frivolous fashion garments.

Under the newly outlined schedule, the legislative ban will take effect on 7th August next year, initiating a two-year transition window designed to phase out all remaining operations completely by August 2029.

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    • tardigrade@scribe.disroot.orgOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I hope Finland doesn’t get the exemption. We must ban that globally, not just in the EU. It’s outright cruelty and also a risk to human being. Just this week, a bird fly broke out at a mink farm in the U.S., and experts say something like that could spark a pandemic.

      The world’s biggest fur producer is still China, where conditions are unbelievably inhuman as one investigation reveals:

      … When investigators went into another animal market in southern China, they were horrified to find dogs and cats being bludgeoned, hanged, bled to death, and strangled with wire nooses so that their fur could be turned into trim and trinkets …

      Edit:

      Not on topic as it is unrelated to Europe, but if you want to End the dog and cat meat trade in China (another underreported issue), you may sign this petition.