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Why Pakistan is slaughtering 800 donkeys a day for China
Pakistan is turning its growing donkey population into an unlikely export business, with a facility near Gwadar now killing hundreds of animals. The demand is being driven less by the meat and more by donkey hides, a key ingredient in the traditional Chinese medicine product, ejiao
Hundreds of donkeys are being slaughtered every day at a processing facility in Pakistan's Balochistan province, with their meat and hides destined primarily for the Chinese market.
The unusual trade has emerged as China struggles with declining numbers of its own donkeys and growing demand for ejiao, a traditional product made using collagen extracted from donkey skin.