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Denmark to ban mink farming in government U-turn (www.bbc.com)
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[–] 37 points 2 weeks ago

This is a disaster. Every mink should have a right to farm the land. We can't deprive them of agriculture!

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

    Though, I think most people be horrified to know what goes on in dairy farming. Like the separation child and mother after just days to hours, killing of cows once their milk production drops, etc. and that's setting aside all the emissions

    I think in the future, it will be seen in a similar light to how people see fur today

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I think in the future, it will be seen in a similar light to how people see fur today

    You mention fur, as if we have stopped farming it. The article is literally about how the government in Denmark was just fine with mink farming until now. If the demand wasn't there, the farming would have disappeared already.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    We haven't stopped it all yet but the total amount of fur farming is massively down as well and banned in an increasing number of countries. To imagine we would have been here only like 10-20 years ago would have been hard to fathom. I meant that we could see similar trajectories for meat, dairy, eggs, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Maybe, lab grown milk is being developed as we speak.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Depending on what you mean by that, it's kind of already here. You can already buy non-animal whey protein milks in stores today. As well as the more traditional oat milk, soy milk, almond milk, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh I didn't know non-animal whey was already being made. Though animal milk is more complex than just whey it is still really cool technology.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 week ago

    Precision fermentation is able to make an increasingly larger number of traditionally animal only proteins, enzymes, etc. There is also non-animal casein coming down the pipeline which will help make animal-free cheeses really good since that's what gives dairy cheese a lot of it's unusual properties

    Already available now is also stuff like non-animal heme iron and non-animal egg white proteins

    I also want to add that ironically the dairy industry was one of the earlier pioneer for precision fermentation aside from it's longer use for making various vitamins. Most tennet used in dairy cheese today (~95%) comes from precision fermentation (the other ~5% still comes from the stomach of killed calves) because the costs of animal rennet started to get super high in the 1990s

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    • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    That's great! Mink farming is just so unnecessarily cruel practice

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    • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    Mark it on your calendars, folks, this is the day that the government of Denmark put a bullet in the head of every mink trying to support their family through honest farm work!

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Danish Nature Minister Christian Rabjerg Madsen said the government had chosen animal welfare.

    "A business should not continue just because it has existed for a long time. It should also make sense for society, for the economy and for the animals," he said.

    Sorry, between the surprise turnaround against Bolsonaro in Brazil and the surprise turnaround against mink farming in Denmark, did I get isekai'd into a divergent timeline where people speak basic common sense?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    For some context on Denmark specifically: Denmark's elections earlier this year had a bigger focus on animal agriculture, albeit along more "animal welfare" lines, but it's significant for it to be even seen as a legitimate mainstream political topic at all

    All of the above heightened Danish media coverage of animal welfare issues by January 2026. In just 72 hours, a citizens’ initiative collected the 50,000 signatures necessary to trigger a parliamentary debate on animal welfare. Animal Protection Denmark collaborated, joining the Danish Society for Nature Conservation, Greenpeace Denmark and the National Association against Pig Factories to form the “alliance for a pig election.” And by the March election, 53% of polled Danish voters said that animal welfare would definitely influence how they cast their ballots, and 95% said urgent action was needed to protect the country’s drinking water.

    https://sentientmedia.org/pig-election-rewrote-factory-farm-politics/

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    “We thought we would have to make really complicated arguments,” says Britta Riis, chief executive officer of Animal Protection Denmark, the country’s largest animal welfare organization. “Suddenly, it was just about the pig.”

    I know the paragraph that comes after this clarifies it isn't strictly about the pigs, but just: holy shit, what?

    I really appreciate the additional context. Sentient Media is a godsend whose reporting I clearly don't read as much as I should.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I remember the sadness I felt when I read about the millions of minks that were killed when an infection of COVID spread on a farm. So glad to see this news.

    I don't really understand why they're farmed in the first place, is it only the fur?

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