#WORLDWIDE #WORLD #CHINA #NetworkForAnimals #News #Journal #Update - Tens of thousands of #donkeys are bludgeoned to death EVERY MONTH at #Chinese-run slaughterhouse!

 

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Dear friends, An extensive undercover investigation by Network for Animals (NFA) has revealed the enormous scale and utter cruelty of the Chinese donkey skin trade in Africa. We desperately need your help. Please don’t stop reading… We have just a few weeks to close a nightmare slaughterhouse where 1000 donkeys a day are being brutally and illegally killed.  We need to raise funds to pursue these criminals and have them brought to justice and to meet with authorities and point out the massive cruelty and criminal behavior that is taking place.  The slaughterhouse permit is up for review and if we can raise $6000.00 (£4300.00) we can take experts to a critical meeting with Tanzanian authorities and reveal to them the true horror of what is going on.  We are sure they will listen, because what is happening is so barbaric that they will be forced to take action. In the longer term we need to get money to care for the donkeys who will remain at the slaughterhouse waiting to be killed when it us closed. The Chinese use donkey skins to make a cosmetic called ejiao (pronounced “uh-jee-ow”), a pointless waste because the cosmetic has never been proven to work.  4.8-million donkeys  are being killed each year at this rate, donkeys will be extinct in under ten years! As the number of Chinese donkeys plummeted because of the demand for ejiao, traders turned to Africa, with devastating consequences for donkeys and rural communities that depend on donkeys for their livelihoods. Please donate now NFA has been fighting the trade for four years and rescued donkeys from the Chinese in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A two-year-long investigation led us to a Chinese-run slaughterhouse situated in a remote and desolate region of Shinyanga, in northern Tanzania. We joined forces with the Arusha Society for the Protection of Animals (ASPA) to investigate after receiving reports of cruelty on a massive scale. We discovered that tens of thousands of donkeys are bludgeoned to death there EVERY MONTH, in a scene of utter cruelty and contempt for compliance with Tanzanian law. The slaughterhouse permit is up for review in October this year, we badly need your help to get this nightmare donkey slaughterhouse closed. Please donate now Our undercover operation revealed blood-curdling horrors! Donkeys suffer appallingly at the Chinese-run slaughterhouse. Against the law and against common decency, the donkeys are bludgeoned to death with a hammer, even though the slaughterhouse has a humane killing device. Donkeys bludgeoned who do not die immediately are left to suffer, with blood running down their faces, until they succumb to their injuries. The Chinese only have a permit to kill 20 donkeys a day, but kill up to a thousand daily. We witnessed truckloads of donkeys being delivered. Donkeys were dragged off the trucks by their ears or simply kicked off, tumbling to the ground on top of each other. One had a broken hip, and many were emaciated. In many cases, donkeys arrive for slaughter in horrific conditions, some with broken legs, severed hooves or maggot-infested wounds, and many in states of near starvation and collapse. Please donate now To fuel the trade, donkeys are stolen in neighboring countries of Kenya and Uganda and illegally smuggled across the borders. Donkeys are often transported long distances in poorly constructed, overcrowded vehicles with little or no access to food or water. Journeys may be as long as 72 hours without rest periods. These animals are kept in such shocking conditions that many die along the way from hunger, stress or injuries. We witnessed pregnant mares, young foals, and sick and injured donkeys being rounded up for slaughter, and because injury and illness often do not affect the quality of the hide, traders have little incentive to ensure humane treatment. Our team was advised that donkeys are sometimes deliberately starved because people falsely believe that emaciated donkeys are easier to skin. When challenged about the conditions at the slaughterhouse, the Chinese woman running it is caught on camera telling her interpreter to lie about what actually happens there. This sickening slaughter of and trade in donkey ‘products’ is LEGAL in Tanzania. But we have a chance to end it! Please donate now The slaughterhouse’s permit expires in October this year. We are working with ASPA to seek justice for the donkeys by persuading the government to end this shame on the face of the Tanzanian nation. We will take the responsible people to court if immediate action is not taken! We cannot allow this daily massacre of donkeys to continue, we need your help to stop it. The sheer scale of the tragedy is overwhelming. Please donate generously today so that we can stop this donkey slaughter. Every day it continues, revolting cruelty is being inflicted on innocent donkeys, and the Tanzanian government is allowing this nightmare to continue.   Literally, as you read these words, donkeys are waiting to be bludgeoned to death with a hammer. In the name of human decency, this must stop right now. If you possibly can, please help us end this horror by making a generous donation to Network for Animals right now.  Please, help if you can today! For the animals, Brian and Gloria Davies (and Max and Flora!) Founders Network for Animals P.S. We cannot describe to you the stench of fear and death that permeated the slaughterhouse as the donkeys realized that it would soon be their turn to have their brains shattered by hammer blows. Please help us. Please send a donation now so that we can fight this with all our might.