If there’s a huge demand it is probably very hard to keep your breeder stock from being stolen by rustlers and sold to the Chinese slaughterhouses and the Chinese probably aren’t too particular about making sure they are buying legitimately owned animals.
“If there’s a huge demand it is probably very hard to keep your breeder stock from being stolen by rustlers and sold to the Chinese slaughterhouses and the Chinese probably aren’t too particular about making sure they are buying legitimately owned animals.”
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Three articles on this point, the latest from last year, among others:
https://www.animals24-7.org/?s=kenya+donkey
Note: the authors are not conservative, quite the opposite, but the points made are clearheaded, and the research is excellent.
“Bleak future for Kenya donkeys, sold to slaughter or left to go feral”
Apparently, one of the four slaughterhouses is locally owned by a Kenyan.