09-25-2017, 08:03 PM
Distressing to read. Even if donkey skins have any medicinal value (which I seriously doubt), I would rather do without it than see these graceful, gentle creatures killed for their skins. This is disgraceful and just goes to show how stupid, short-sighted and cruel humans can be be.
Articles like this help to raise awareness of the issue; I didn't know about this shocking trade before. What is needed above all is for scientific debunking of the alleged benefits, followed by widespread anti-publicity in China, so that Chinese people will no longer be queuing up to buy such products. If the demand is no longer there, the trafficking will stop.
Communist China is officially atheist - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_China - but unfortunately these primitive superstitions about animal skins persist there.
Articles like this help to raise awareness of the issue; I didn't know about this shocking trade before. What is needed above all is for scientific debunking of the alleged benefits, followed by widespread anti-publicity in China, so that Chinese people will no longer be queuing up to buy such products. If the demand is no longer there, the trafficking will stop.
Communist China is officially atheist - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreligion_in_China - but unfortunately these primitive superstitions about animal skins persist there.
