Amazon selling products containing donkey meat: lawsuit

A suit is accusing Amazon of breaking California law for allegedly trading products containing donkey meat.

The Center for Contemporary Equine Studies says that Amazon is illegally trading products containing ejiao, aliases gelatin made from donkey skin.

The merchandise is besides known arsenic "gelatina nigra." It is utilized successful accepted Chinese medicine but is chiefly exported from African countries specified arsenic Kenya and Ghana.

"Ejiao’s users judge that it treats a assortment of conditions specified arsenic bleeding, dizziness, insomnia and a barren cough," according to nan Brooke USA Foundation, an equine use organization.

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The non-profit says it tin beryllium recovered anyplace from nutrient and portion products to cosmetics. 

The suit asks Amazon to prohibition ejiao aliases look imaginable fines of $1 cardinal per each time a merchandise pinch ejiao is sold connected its website.

The statement rests connected nan 1998 Prohibition of Horse Slaughter and Sale of Horsemeat for Human Consumption Act, pinch nan suit arguing that donkeys are equine animals.

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An study conducted by Wired analyzed 1,000 products containing ejiao, uncovering it successful astatine slightest 15 edible items.

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