OpinionFebruary 10, 2020
The Global Donkey Crisis—Yes, Really
Koalas might be cuter, but donkeys are being abused and slaughtered en masse for their skins, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine
Stories by Jane Desmond
Jane Desmond, PhD, is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a specialist in human-animal relations and a Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project. Her latest book is Displaying Death and Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science and Everyday Life (University of Chicago Press, 2016).