Moelyn Photos/Getty ImagesThe retailer continues to sell items with"ejiao," a gelatin made from the skin of donkeys.For more stories,The US Center for Contemporary Equine Studies is suing Amazon for selling products containing a donkey derivative, despite efforts from advocacy groups to halt the practice.
According to the Brooke USA Foundation, a group fighting against Amazon in support of donkey welfare, ejiao acts as"a hard gel that can be dissolved in hot water or alcohol to be used in food or drink, or in beauty products such as face creams." Some advocacy groups and consumers claim companies are deceptively using the substance, contributing to the slaughter and skinning of millions of donkeys a year.
One Amazon customer told Wired she was shocked to discover anti-hemorrhage dietary supplements on the site that claimed to be"100 percent pure, natural herbs" but contained"gelatina nigra," another name for ejiao.