The bipartisan Ejiao Act would prohibit the transport, sale, and purchase within the United States of products containing ejiao and of donkeys and donkey hides for the production of ejiao. Ejiao, a ...

Despite a continent-wide ban, illegal trafficking of the beasts of burden continues to thrive in Africa, with local ...

For years, demand from the country has led to around six million donkeys in Africa being killed annually and their skins used to make ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine. Sold in bars ...

Around the globe, however, donkeys are being killed in unprecedented numbers. “Ejiao” (pronounced “eh-gee-yow”) is a gelatin made from boiling donkey hides. It is used primarily in cosmetics and ...