Denmark’s Plan to Cull 17 Million Mink Faces Legal Hurdle

Mink look out from their cage at the farm of Henrik Nordgaard Hansen and Ann-Mona Kulsoe Larsen as they have to kill off their herd, which consists of 3,000 mother mink and their cubs on their farm near Naestved, Denmark, on Nov. 6, 2020. Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

The Danish government is facing legal obstacles to its plan to cull all 17 million mink in the country, a measure intended to stem the potential spread of a mutated strain of the CCP virus found in the animal.

Denmark said last week that 12 people in the Nordic country had been infected with a mink-related mutant strain of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease.