{"id":63033,"date":"2024-03-31T09:29:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=63033"},"modified":"2024-03-31T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:31:20","slug":"ejiao-and-the-donkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/ejiao-and-the-donkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejiao and the Donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa has banned the use<br \/>\nOf ejiao<br \/>\nTraditional Chinese medicines<br \/>\nAnswer to<br \/>\nWeird and wonderful treatments<br \/>\nFrom donkey skins<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what the ancient Chinese thought to do<br \/>\nTo Donkeys caring loyal creations<br \/>\nAnimals that truly are the best<br \/>\nDocile helpful workers<br \/>\nOften given grief<br \/>\nAnd the Chinese sadly abuse them<br \/>\nWhich is beyond belief.<\/p>\n<p>Bash them with a sledgehammer<br \/>\nAnd strip their skin away<br \/>\nProbably eat their flesh as meat<br \/>\nThe skin though bray on bray<br \/>\nThis vile and awful torture<br \/>\nCarried out to heal<br \/>\nVarious human ailments<br \/>\nHonest folks it\u2019s real<\/p>\n<p>Well AFrica has banned it<br \/>\nNo exported donkeys will<br \/>\nBe given grief and horror<br \/>\nI must say that relief<br \/>\nWas called for by so many animal Rightists  who<br \/>\nHate to witness the insanity<br \/>\nOf ejiao yes it\u2019s true<\/p>\n<p>Sanctuaries everywhere<br \/>\nLook after Donkeys who<br \/>\nFall foul of ugly humans<br \/>\nLeft to fail it\u2019s true<br \/>\nSo it\u2019s  very good that AFrica now has passed a law<br \/>\nFor it will save the donkeys<br \/>\nFrom now till for evermore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa has banned the use Of ejiao Traditional Chinese medicines Answer to Weird and wonderful treatments From donkey skins It\u2019s what the ancient Chinese thought to do To Donkeys caring loyal creations Animals that truly are the best Docile helpful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/03\/ejiao-and-the-donkeys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,344,173,4,22,184,507,473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-not-my-king-story","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-death-and-dying","category-donkeys-and-working-animals","category-humanity-is-a-shithouse","category-tcm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63036,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63033\/revisions\/63036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}