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Chinese demand threatens to wipe out Kenya’s donkeys
China Dialogue ^ | 9-4-19 | Maina Waruru

Posted on 09/05/2019 6:30:03 PM PDT by dynachrome

Growing demand for donkey meat and skin in China is causing a sharp decline in the animals in Kenya. Animal rights campaigners warn that donkeys could soon disappear in the east African country, where they play a vital role as beasts of burden, especially in rural areas.

Since 2014, four abattoirs have been set up in Kenya to meet demand. The meat is considered a delicacy in China and the skins are processed to create ejiao, a traditional remedy used to treat everything from anaemia to dizziness. However, according to a recent report by the African Network for Animal Welfare (ANAW), the slaughterhouses are operating at below half their capacity.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Humor; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: china; donkeys; kenya; pork
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To: dynachrome
Chinese like Pig and Dog too.

When asked for Dog too, in Pig Latin, they confused it and got this:

(DonKey Otay)

41 posted on 09/05/2019 8:52:08 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: piasa

Beef? The downsides you mentioned compensated by premium price.


42 posted on 09/05/2019 8:54:20 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: PGR88
Someone should tell the Kenyans that its possible to raise new donkeys - and sell them!

That would be Capitalism. Bad, bad!
43 posted on 09/05/2019 9:03:34 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Born to Conserve
99.9% of the Chinese culture is stone age.

The meat is considered a delicacy in China. Wait, wat?
44 posted on 09/05/2019 9:06:04 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: dainbramaged

They need to start eating themselves. No need for abortions then.


45 posted on 09/05/2019 9:07:07 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Amberdawn

Many moons ago I read a horrifying news article about the ChiComs’ abortion industry. Some of the fetuses were quietly . . . consumed and/or sold (for consumption) by medical staff, while large stainless steel vats full of fetuses were shipped to the West for use in beauty products. This was back during the ChiComs’ “one child” and forced abortion days.


46 posted on 09/05/2019 9:14:51 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: Amberdawn

Give them time...


47 posted on 09/05/2019 9:17:43 PM PDT by null and void (After those deliberate lies THEY owe it to me to be honest, I don't owe them to be less suspicious.)
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To: piasa
How about deer ? Their penises are the best ! Oh and turkeys 🦃 too !
48 posted on 09/05/2019 10:00:52 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: dynachrome

The ChiCom “Belt and Road” plan is to offer loans to Tin-Pot dictators for fantastic modern infrastructure with lots of graft packed into the deal for the dictator and cronies. then when the tin-pot nation can’t make the payments foreclose and take control of the infrastructure and the nation. Many East African harbors have fallen into the ChiCom’s hands that way.

Right now the ChiCom’s are offering to build 3 international airports in Greenland.


49 posted on 09/05/2019 10:10:19 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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The meat is considered a delicacy in China and the skins are processed to create ejiao, a traditional remedy used to treat everything from anaemia to dizziness.
Superstitious nitwittery.

50 posted on 09/05/2019 10:43:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: piasa

“If there’s a huge demand it is probably very hard to keep your breeder stock from being stolen by rustlers and sold to the Chinese slaughterhouses and the Chinese probably aren’t too particular about making sure they are buying legitimately owned animals.”

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Three articles on this point, the latest from last year, among others:

https://www.animals24-7.org/?s=kenya+donkey

Note: the authors are not conservative, quite the opposite, but the points made are clearheaded, and the research is excellent.

“Bleak future for Kenya donkeys, sold to slaughter or left to go feral”

Apparently, one of the four slaughterhouses is locally owned by a Kenyan.


51 posted on 09/06/2019 2:11:20 AM PDT by Norski
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To: dynachrome

F-ing chinks , I have to say , I hate them more time by day. A truly despicable ppl. We should have nuked them out of existence in 1950. Maybe will get another shot someday ....


52 posted on 09/06/2019 2:29:41 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: dainbramaged
The Chinese will eat anything with four legs except a table.
I always said that the Chinese motto was "if we can catch it, we are having it for dinner".
53 posted on 09/07/2019 11:33:41 AM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (After Trump-then what?)
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