We know very well that donkey meat is not transparent. However, it seems that Amazon has a problem in California at the expense of various dietary supplements that claim to be 100% vegan and that, curiously, they have a surprise ingredient: donkey meat.
The US media echoed the controversy Wiredreferring to a supplement manufactured by the Artemisia company —one of the world leaders in the production of nutritional supplementation— aimed at preventing bleeding.
Announced in own marketplace from Amazon as “100% herbs” and as oriental, the supplement however has a small print that is what has raised the cry in heaven for this product where the formulation appears naturally herbaceous to some extent.
Based on the principles of traditional chinese medicinethe product in question carries certain species such as Paeonic Lactiflora, angelica sinensis or own Artemisia argyi. However, if we continue reading we see that the concept appears gelatin nigrasummarized with the name of ejiao which is, neither more nor less, donkey meat.
Not sirloin or entrecote, precisely, but it is a by-product made from donkey skin and which is sometimes known as donkey hide gelatin or what is the same, donkey skin gelatin, which is considered medicinal in Chinese tradition.
Among its virtues, as explained in A Materia Medica for Chinese Medicine: Plants, Minerals, and Animal Products, it is cited that the ejiao (either e jiao) strengthens the blood, reduces bleeding, improves yinwhich is why it is often used or recommended in gynecological treatments.
The problem, beyond labeling a product that obviously has an animal component as vegan and 100% herbaceous, is that the company that produces it and Amazon may be involved in a series of lawsuits because the spark has jumped in the state of California , which enacted a law in 1998 that prevents the slaughter of any type of equine.
Horses, mules, hinnies, donkeys, donkeys, donkeys… In California, no type of equine can be slaughtered for human consumption.which serves as a workhorse —and never better said— to carry out certain lawsuits, as explained in Wiredsince they consider the sale of these donkey-based products illegal.
Dramatic or not, the reality is that the donkey is an endangered species in the West, but not in Asia or Africa, although its number is decreasing due to mechanization and the culinary use made of these horses. Another song is that in California there is no custom of eating horse meat, which in Maghreb countries, but also in certain parts of Spain such as the Levante or the Pyrenees or in some regions of Italy is more common than it seems.
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