{"id":749481,"date":"2017-12-14T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T13:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=749481"},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T18:55:06","slug":"what-is-ejiao-a-traditional-chinese-medicine-for-which-donkeys-are-beaten-to-death-with-hammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=749481","title":{"rendered":"What is Ejiao? A traditional Chinese medicine for which donkeys are \u2018beaten to death with hammers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KAREN NORONHA:<\/strong> <em>\u2018In a gruesome video that emerged from China recently, a number of donkeys \u2014 some as young as five months old \u2014 are seen being killed mercilessly for their skin, which is used in the making of a Chinese medicine, called \u201cejiao\u201d\u2026 The video released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta)\u2026 showed farmers swinging a sledgehammer on a donkey\u2019s forehead and then slitting the animal\u2019s throat. One of the donkeys seen in the video appeared malnourished, with his ribs sticking out, while another was frail and sick, and unable to walk. The latter was seen being dumped into the bucket of a tractor and hauled away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cDonkeys as young as 5 months old have been bashed in the head and left to endure a slow, agonising death, all for an ingredient,\u201d Peta President Ingrid Newkirk said in a recent statement. \u201cPeta is calling on kind people in China and everywhere else to choose only foods and medicines that do not contain donkey gelatin and to encourage their friends and family members to do the same\u201d.\u2019<\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/what-ejiao-traditional-chinese-medicine-which-donkeys-are-beaten-death-hammers-1648910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"> SOURCE\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P06A98NZLqY\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAREN NORONHA: \u2018In a gruesome video that emerged from China recently, a number of donkeys \u2014 some as young as five months old \u2014 are seen being killed mercilessly for their skin, which is used in the making of a Chinese medicine, called \u201cejiao\u201d\u2026 The video released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27,31],"class_list":["post-749481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-cruelty","tag-farming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749487,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749481\/revisions\/749487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/749486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}