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bowhunterb119 t1_ja0j9g4 wrote

What’s the problem? We eat chicken, beef, lamb, etc and also use products like leather, down, wool… is this some type of vegan thing? Not like they’re trading in spotted owl feathers or panda skin

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Autarch_Kade t1_ja140zv wrote

Funny you mention the spotted owl - the specific donkeys being slaughtered are much more endangered than the spotted owl.

So that's the problem.

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Rent-a-guru t1_ja1sxwt wrote

That is simply not the case. If you're taking about the African Wild Ass then they live on the other end of the continent, around Ethiopia. There is also only around 570 of them, whereas the article is talking about trade of millions of donkey skins. So this doesn't appear to have anything to do with trade in endangered animals.

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Jimid41 t1_ja1k38w wrote

You'd think that would be mentioned in the article.

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