Chapter 662 Helping a friend with a small business
"Then don't worry. You generally won't have a chance to make a move in Sweden," Yasmine said with a smile. "People in my family are very good at saying one thing to your face and another behind your back. Sweden is now the second largest refugee-receiving country in Europe after Germany. After all, we all want to go there because of the good welfare, but because there are so many refugees, all kinds of problems have arisen! Even so, no one dares to publicly say that they don't welcome refugees, and they only dare to complain online. Believe me, once you go to Sweden, even if those people hate you, they won't show it. That's us Swedes..."
Everyone looked at Yasmine in silence. "Yasmine, are you sure you're Swedish? You're even more self-deprecating than the rest of us."
Yasmin said, "I was born and raised in Sweden, but that doesn't mean I like Swedes."
The atmosphere darkened after hearing this. Felix glanced around and changed the subject: "Master, are you really going to Sweden?"
Xiao Peng nodded. "Indeed, we have to go. I looked at the information Abby gave me just now. We have to go to Denmark first and then cross the sea to Sweden. But it's not for one thing."
"Huh? What's so busy?" Marlene asked.
Xiao Peng said, "I'm going to Denmark to help a classmate of mine discuss some business matters. The price of fur there is so cheap right now, and my classmate wants to do international trade and asked me to help him look around."
The price of Danish fur has dropped to freezing point.
The reason fur prices are so low there is actually quite bizarre: during the global pandemic, Denmark's epidemic was essentially out of control. For a long time, they didn't lock down or quarantine people, allowing everyone to just go along with it. Consequently, the epidemic reached dire proportions, with a total population of over five million and over 200,000 confirmed cases. Compare that to China, with a population of 1.4 billion and a cumulative 100,000 confirmed cases...
Denmark, however, did not fail to implement countermeasures in response to the epidemic. How did they do it? They spent three months culling over 15 million farmed mink, then continued without lockdown or quarantine. Later, realizing the situation was getting out of control, they enacted a lockdown, which ultimately led to massive protests in the capital, with protesters nearly setting Copenhagen on fire.
But the most unlucky ones are the mink farmers in Denmark. All 15 million farmed minks were slaughtered just like that!
This raises the question: First, Danish farmers raise 15 million mink? Why have animal protection organizations never mentioned this? Isn't skinning cruel? Furthermore, with over 15 million mink killed, why hasn't the Swedish environmental activist spoken out? This woman even criticizes the Chinese for using chopsticks, so why hasn't she spoken out about this mass slaughter?
These foreign animal protection and environmental protection things are actually just idiots who take advantage of people!
Regardless, the end result was a devastating blow to Denmark's mink farming industry. Fur prices there are now at an all-time low. "Old Five" Wu Tengluan and his wife Zhang Chuyun, who had been working in e-commerce in their hometown, saw a business opportunity here and contacted Xiao Peng to ask if he had any connections.
Xiao Peng was really unfamiliar with such matters. He originally wanted to ask Fabian to contact them and inquire about it. After all, Germany and Denmark were neighbors, so he could go over and inquire about it when he had time. Now that he was going to Sweden, he could stop by and take a look.
Yasmine frowned after hearing what Xiao Peng said. "Fur? Xiao, how can you do such a business? Those poor minks are raised in cramped spaces, waiting to grow up and be skinned. Don't you think that's too cruel? Denmark banning mink farming is a good thing! No buying, no killing. If everyone stopped wearing fur, there would be no more mink farming, and tragedies like this would stop happening."
Xiao Peng nodded after hearing this: "Then the marten is almost extinct."
"What do you mean?" Yasmine frowned after hearing this.
Xiao Peng spread his hands and said, "I like animals, too. I'm even called the 'Shark Whisperer,' but protecting animals... how should I put it? It's a very contradictory thing!"
"What's the contradiction?" Yasmine said, "It's easy for us to start with ourselves."
Xiao Peng said, "Then let me start with the most basic refutation. How should the meat you eat be accounted for?"
"That's different!" Yasmine said, "The meat I eat is from domesticated animals. They are bred to provide meat for humans. I'm talking about wild animals!"
"Oh," Xiao Peng suddenly realized. "So cattle, sheep, and pigs aren't worth protecting. They were born to be killed? Then their ancestors were also wild animals."
"But they have been domesticated!" said Yasmine.
Xiao Peng nodded. "So what's the difference between what these mink farmers are doing now and what our ancestors did? I think I understand your point. We've already done so much harm to pigs, cattle, and sheep, so why not harm other animals? But if we do that, these animals will be on the verge of extinction!"
"What do you mean?" Yasmine asked in confusion.
Xiao Peng held up three fingers: "There are three main reasons for animal extinction."
"I'd like to hear the details," Yasmine said.
Xiao Peng raised his first finger: "First, animals that seriously conflict with human living space. Let me use our China as an example: in ancient times, there was a lake group called Yunmengze in the Hanjiang Plain of our country, which was right next to the Yangtze River today. Later, due to sedimentation and other reasons, Yunmengze has disappeared. Now it has become a number of separated lakes and many people live there. But in ancient times, it was really not a suitable place to live. Why? It was because there were too many wild animals there. Now, the Yangtze alligator and the South China tiger, two of the most endangered animals in our country, used to gather there, seriously affecting human living space. So now these two All species have become endangered. In 1999, in a country as vast as ours, there were fewer than 150 wild Yangtze alligators, and the South China tiger was extinct in the wild. As for animals like the Baiji dolphin, their extinction was driven by conflicts with human habitation – is the annual flooding of the Yangtze River unresolved? And the only consequence of this solution is that the Baiji dolphin's habitat has been impacted, leading to its extinction. It's undeniable that humans now dominate the world, and when conflicts arise, animals are the unfortunate ones. You can't imagine what would happen if a tiger suddenly jumped through the door while we were eating, can you?
After hearing this, Yasmine was silent for a while and then said, "What about the next two reasons?"
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