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[ [link removed] ]A donkey rests on the ground with its head lowered.

 

John,

Every year, 5 million donkeys are savagely butchered to produce a gelatin
from their hides used in cosmetics and supplements that claim to enhance
health and preserve youth.

Donkeys are being dragged by their ears or tails and their heads bashed in
by sledgehammers. Some donkeys are skinned alive. We can help stop this
cruelty.

This industry relies on online platforms to peddle its products. Ebay has
already banned sale of donkey gelatin. Now pressure is growing on
Amazon to do the same.

If everyone reading this chips in the cost of a coffee, we can take the
pressure to boiling point – running a deep-dive investigation to document
Amazon’s donkey gelatin trade, then launching a massive publicity push to
expose it, with journalist briefings, ads targeting key execs and
media-grabbing stunts outside Amazon HQ.

Can you chip in to stop this torture trade and save millions of donkeys?



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Behind this horror are unproven claims that the gelatin in donkey skins,
called ejiao, has youth and health-enhancing properties. The hides are
boiled down and the gelatin is turned into bars, powder, or pills to be
sold at sky-high prices.

It’s gotten so out of control that HALF of the donkeys in Kenya are
thought to have been killed in just three years.

Theft is common too, with donkeys snatched from families that depend on
them, to be skinned, or shipped across borders in cramped and sweltering
conditions. And when donkeys are taken, women and children bear the brunt
of the extra work, harming their ability to earn money or go to school.

The good news is African governments just agreed to a continent-wide ban
on killing donkeys for their skins. And Brazil is acting too.

But by providing a space to freely trade their products, Amazon is
providing donkey torturers with a lifeline.

John, that’s why it’s so important we act now. More than
54,000 have already signed our petition calling on Amazon to stop this
torture trade, but with your help, we can do so much more – using
well-honed publicity tactics to expose Amazon’s complicity with donkey
torture and ratchet up the pressure until they act to save these gentle
creatures. Are you in?



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Yasmin and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Amazon: stop the cruel treatment of donkeys. Ekō
[ [link removed] ]Millions of donkeys killed each year to make medicine. BBC 15 February
2024
[ [link removed] ]The Cruel Eijao Trade Kills Millions of Donkeys Every
Year. Countercurrents 19 March 2024
[ [link removed] ]Amazon Ceases Donkey Skin Products in California Following Settlement
with Horse Welfare Non-Profit. Tech Times 20 December 2023

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