Their numbers declined in Egypt.. Where did the two million donkeys go in 7 years?

An uproar is raised on social media in Egypt whenever it is announced that a number of slaughtered and skinless donkeys have been found, the last of which was a few days ago in Menopause Governorate, north of Cairo.

But the great excitement during the past days came through the statements of the Undersecretary of the Veterinary Division at the National Research Center, Dr. Ahmed Abdoun, most notably the local media, in which he said that the total number of donkeys in Egypt reached 3.2 million heads in 2014, but the number has shrunk dramatically to now only one million heads .

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the Egyptians were talking about some weak souls slaughtering donkeys and selling their meat to “kebab and kofta” shops, it became clear that there is another reason for slaughtering these animals, perhaps greater than meat, which is to obtain their skins.

Thus, the question has become a recurring question in the comments of the pioneers of social networking sites on this news: Where did those skins go? And what do you use? And how many of them were exported to China, whose skins are used to extract drugs to treat several diseases and delay aging? Was it out of the legal doors? What is the truth about what is reported about the use of donkey skins in confectionery factories as a source of gelatin, which is a cheap alternative to sugar?