The Wild Beauty Foundation Stands with Wild Burros
Write your lawmaker, and urge them to support H. R. 5203 aka "The Ejiao Act" to end the slaughter, and foreign trade of donkey-skin for cosmetic products.
- Ejiao is a gelatin created from the skins of donkeys which is used in traditional Chinese medicine, beauty, cosmetic, and other luxury products.
- The donkey skin trade for the production of ejiao, is decimating global donkey populations and harming impoverished global communities.
- Studies have shown that the use of ejiao is unnecessary in the production of these products since the gelatins from other sources, including plants may be used instead.
- Millions of donkeys are slaughtered annually for their skins to make ejiao.
- The domestic Chinese and international demand for donkey skins is approximately 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 skins per year but the annual supply in China is less than 1,800,000.
- Such demand has led to the slaughter of massive numbers of donkeys across the globe, decimating donkey populations, most notably in Africa and Latin America.
- The demand has also had devastating effects on the families who depend on donkeys for survival, such as fetching water to drink, cook and clean, taking products to market for sale, and transporting children to school.