From bakers to brewers: After Covid cull, Danish mink farmers find new careers

Vestergaard at the site of his former mink farm in Holstebro, Denmark. For Vestergaard, his mink raising days are over. Photos: Jonathan Nackstrand/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 in November 2020 following the discovery of a mutated strain of the coronavirus.