An animal rights lobby has released new video exposé that pulls back the curtain on the cruelty behind the Chinese trade in donkey skins, which come from donkeys ****** in Kenya w**se hides are boiled down to be used in drinks, sweets, and a much-criticised traditional medicine ingre***nt called ejiao.
The fo***** captured by PETA s**ws donkeys subjected to **rrific ***** in government-sanctioned ***********uses in Mogotio and Naivasha, where workers are seen *******ly beating frightened and gentle animals w** are crammed together so tightly that they can barely move.
Three new donkey ***********uses have opened in Kenya in just the last three years alone catering to the ejiao industry, which annually produces 5,000 tons of products containing the ingre***nt and uses some four m***ion donkey hides each year, half of which are imported to China from other countries, including Kenya.
Donkeys are packed onto trucks and endure grueling journeys to ***********uses from as far away as nei***oring countries—and the trip from the border with Ethiopia can take two days, d****g which the animals aren’t given any water or food. Many collapse, and some ***.
While PETA Asia was on site, workers left the bo**** of two donkeys, w** had d*** d****g the long journey, outside the ***********use and dragged another one—w** was so ******* that she was unable to stand—from the truck, dum*** her on the ground, and kicked her.
“Kenya s**uld take action to close ***********uses that cash in on China’s desire for ejiao while gentle donkeys pay the price with their lives,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA calls on kind people around the world to reject gelatin made from the skins of terrif*** donkeys.”
*****tan and numerous African countries—including Botswana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda—have banned Chinese-funded ***********uses or implemented policies to stop the export of donkey skins to China. In addition, after appeals from PETA, companies such as eBay and Walmart-owned Jet.com agreed to stop selling items containing ejiao.
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In 2017, PETA—w**se motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat or ***** in any other way”—revealed that donkeys in China, some as young as 5 months old, are bashed in the head with a sledgehammer and their throats are slit so that their skin can be boiled down for ejiao.
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