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Millions of donkeys killed each year to make a traditional remedy

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19 pointsgeox15 comments

This makes me sad. I have raised donkeys in my farm. They are fun, but they also make good livestock guardians. I’d love to find a breeding pair again.

I find the article's unwillingness to actually state the obvious - that donkey collagen isn't a magic pill and should stay in donkies - really distressing.

How could someone write this and not discuss what is being done to get cough People to stop buying it? Does the Chinese government really not have anything to say about it?

I thought that the BBC was better than this.

Isn't bioengineering at the point we could just clone the cells and sell them?

Seems cheaper to engineer than this....and more ethical

Addressing your comment properly with all the nuances would require more time than I have at the moment.

The short version: It's a concern, but a distant secondary concern. The issue is the current practice of killing donkeys would be "wrong" even if it had a lot of legitimate medicinal value.

I am not sure how or if we're actually disagreeing as I did explicitly say that donkey collagen should stay in donkies.

JELL-O and most pill capsules are made from animal products too.

The BBC failed to inform because I'm still confused if collagen extraction relies on recycling dead animal carcasses rather than actively raising and killing animals for slaughter.

....and yet most of you are eating pigs and cows. Hypocrites.

I thought this would be about animal testing or something, but it's not even for real medicine, just magic pills.

Alternative medicine, that is.

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we also get +90 BILLION of animals killed each year for food... which is dumb as believing in magic pills coming from donkeys

Meat agriculture is killing us in multiple ways.

- Pandemics including the 1918 "Spanish" flu and COVID

- Antibiotic resistance

- Air, soil, and water pollution

- Deforestation for feed farms and CAFOs

- A major component of climate change

Most people are inhumane and completely reject animal cruelty reflexively, so it's a weak, unpersuasive argument. Meat agriculture and fossil fuels need to be banned but won't because of stupidity, profits, and a lack of willpower.

let not mention the general recommendation of nutritional organizations... basically you start having a health population and saves billions of USD on health services

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