After learning from PETA that donkeys are confined to filthy concrete pens, beaten with sticks, and struck in the head with a sledgehammer so that their skins can be boiled down to make gelatin for a Chinese “medicine” called ejiao, Walmart stopped selling products containing this cruelly produced ingredient. Now, the company sells only alternatives to ejiao, such as herbal medicines.
Walmart Removes Donkey-Hide Gelatin!
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