China is increasingly looking to Africa to satisfy demand as its own donkey population has nearly halved in recent years. An investigation inside Kenyan slaughterhouses showed animals being cruelly beaten by workers, or dead after long truck journeys from neighbouring countries. China is increasingly looking to Africa to satisfy demand as its own donkey population has nearly halved in recent years. An investigation by the body in 2017 found the donkey skin trade was inhumane and "completely unsustainable", he said. In South Africa slaughter operators have admitted using hammers to kill the donkeys, or... skinning them alive."

Source: Daily Nation May 16, 2019 10:52 UTC