Amazon Taking Heat for Inhumane Donkey Products Sold by Third-Party Vendors

Amazon is facing a stampede of protestation over third - company seller being allowed to deal donkey - base products . A few Donkey - free-base items , remedies , and snacks easily found on the digital marketplace are products of an external , inhumane slaughter of donkeys , and one California - based equine nonprofit wants Amazon to ban the product from its website .

Wiredreported Friday that there were multiple vendors on Amazon sell domestic ass - related products , including a gelatin made from donkey hide often called “ ejiao . ” The advocacy group The Donkey Sanctuaryreported back in 2019that globose donkey populations are being decimated by the trade of ejiao , with 4.8 million donkeys slaughtered and bark every year as of that year . Donkeys reportedly feel “ horrendous and inexcusable hurt , ” from being transported in overcrowded motortruck then being hold for 24-hour interval in cramped compound without any food before being massacre .

The trade has become a $ 7.8 billion diligence as of 2020,according to datafrom the Shandong Ejiao Industry Association . Arecent paperfrom the think tankful South African Institute of International Affairs establish how the wallop has been hurting not just the animals , but the hoi polloi who depend on their labor .

Donkeys are a main source of labor in countries like rural South Africa, but the cruel ‘ejiao’ trade has decimated donkey populations in many places that depend on them.

Donkeys are a main source of labor in countries like rural South Africa, but the cruel ‘ejiao’ trade has decimated donkey populations in many places that depend on them.Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images)

There areno horse slaughterhouses in the U.S. , and some state like Californiahave laws against the walloping of horsesand sale of horsemeat , both for human and pet consumption . You wo n’t find any horsemeat on Amazon , but a lawsuit from the Center for Contemporary Equine Studies , a California - ground not-for-profit , alleges that the sale of ejiao and other donkey - base product spoil the California law .

Gizmodo reached out to Amazon for comment on both the products sold and the on-going causa , but we did not immediately hear back . All - consuming Amazonis making a killing off of its third party retailers , as arecent reportshowed the site accept one-half of many Amazon merchant ’ sale as a perpetration fee .

The police force , call in Proposition 6 , was part of a voting opening move put to voters on the 1998 ballot . While Frank Rothschild , the equine studies center conductor , enunciate that scientifically , donkeys are equine in the same vena as horses , so Amazon violates the law , it stay up to a jurist to understand if the law specifically refers to all member of the family Equidae family .

One product explicitly labeled as ‘Donkey Hide Gelatin’ was picked up in the sponsored section of Amazon’s marketplace.

One product explicitly labeled as ‘Donkey Hide Gelatin’ was picked up in the sponsored section of Amazon’s marketplace.Screenshot: Amazon/Gizmodo

Still , the company has been hounded over wrong or illegal third - party products sell on its site . The digital marketplace hashosted fake or unproven covid 19 disinfectants . In 2019 , an investigation showed Amazon wasplaying host to thousands of banned or unsafe products . In 2021 , the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissionsued Amazonover its sales event of allegedly faulty products .

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