[ [link removed] ]A donkey lays on the dusty ground, its head bent and eyes downcast.
John,
Nearly 6 million donkeys are savagely butchered every single year to
produce a gelatin from their hides that’s used in cosmetics and
supplements.
Donkeys are dragged by their ears or tails into cramped trucks and their
heads bashed in by sledgehammers. Some are even skinned alive. We can stop
this horror.
The cruel donkey gelatin trade is booming. But a new law could ban the
import and export of donkey gelatin in the US – if we can ratchet up the
pressure to get it introduced.
With all of us chipping in a little we could commission independent
polling showing just how much support there is for banning this cruel
trade, run ads targeting key decision-makers lobbying them to reintroduce
this lifesaving bill, and brief journalists to get this all over the
media.
If we can get the US to ban this horrific trade, other countries could
soon follow. Can you chip in to save millions of donkey from torture?
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African governments just agreed to a continent-wide ban on killing donkeys
for their skins. And Brazil is acting too. Now, we have a chance to get
the US to put its might behind this global effort and wield its
significant influence to trigger similar bans in other countries.
This horror trade is fueled by 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.
The knock-on effects for communities in the global south are devastating.
Donkeys are 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,
blocking their ability to earn money or go to school.
There’s no excuse for the US to keep silently co-signing this harmful
cycle. With all of us chipping in we can ratchet up the pressure to get
the US to end its complicity in this cruel trade.
John, that’s why it’s so important we act now. More than
178,000 have already signed our petition calling on Amazon to stop this
horrowshow, but with your help, we can do so much more – using well-honed
campaign tactics to amp up the pressure until the US bans this torture
trade. Are you in?
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Thanks for all that you do,
Yasmin, Miriam and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Ejiao and the Donkey Hide Trade. Congressional Research Service 03
March 2023
[ [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: stop the cruel treatment of donkeys. Ekō
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