Hermès, a French fashion brand, intends to construct Australia’s biggest crocodile factory farm, housing up to 50,000 crocodiles at a time for the purpose of using their skin to make pricey purses, belts, and other accessories. See video here.
No matter the source or the “standards” promoted by corporations, PETA exposés on the exotic-skins sector have consistently demonstrated that products created from animal skins force extremely sensitive and clever animals to undergo cruel confinement and brutal death.
Alligators on a Texas farm that supplied a tannery owned by Hermès were confined infoul-smelling water in musty, gloomy sheds; they were also deprived of sunlight, clean water, fresh air, and basic medical care, according to a PETA eyewitness report. Over 500 aware alligators were struggling to break free when a worker sliced into their necks. Minutes after personnel attempted to kill them, several were still thrashing and kicking. Tens of thousands of Nile crocodiles on a Zimbabwean farm were kept in concrete pits from birth until their deaths. A tannery run by Hermès receives a large number of the stomach skins from these animals, which are then used to make purses that can cost $50,000 or more. One handbag is made from two or three crocodiles. It’s clear from the COVID-19 pandemic that severe zoonotic diseases—which can spread from other animals to humans—breed best in unhygienic settings when unwell and agitated animals are housed together. Hermès should discontinue selling exotic skins because conservation specialists caution that the industry increases the possibility of future epidemics.
For the sake of crocodiles, which are inquisitive and delicate creatures who only want to be let to swim freely, construct nests, and defend their young, please speak up. To put a stop to speciesism, which is supported by denying them and other creatures their freedom, we need your assistance. Tell Hermès not to carry unusual skins!
Please sign the petition here.
PETA investigators uncovered the horrifying conditions under which animals are reared and/or killed for “luxury” products such as watchbands, belts, and Birkin bags, from Texas to Zimbabwe. Before they are eventually killed for their skins, crocodiles and alligators are housed in dreary concrete pits for months or even years. In the name of “luxury,” a PETA investigator found that workers attempted to mutilate some alligators’ brains with metal rods and savagely cut into their necks. Some animals had been attempted to be killed for minutes, but they were still aware, thrashing and kicking.
In Texas, Alligators Die Horrible Deaths!
PETA investigators uncovered the horrifying conditions under which animals are reared and/or killed for “luxury” products such as watchbands, belts, and Birkin bags, from Texas to Zimbabwe. Before they are eventually killed for their skins, crocodiles and alligators are housed in dreary concrete pits for months or even years. In the name of “luxury,” a PETA investigator found that workers attempted to mutilate some alligators’ brains with metal rods and savagely cut into their necks. Some animals had been attempted to be killed for minutes, but they were still aware, thrashing and kicking. The following activities by employees there were recorded by our investigator:
- blasting captive-bolt guns at alligators in the head repeatedly
- slicing through more than 500 alligators that were conscious while some were trying to flee
- attempting to dislocate the vertebrae of aware alligators by stabbing them, despite a manager’s admission that “reptiles will continue to live” after that
A few minutes after their attempted slaughter, the investigator observed alligators moving their tails and legs in the bloody ice bins and on the bleed rack. The skins of the alligators are shipped to France to be turned into “luxury” products like watchbands following their wretched lives and occasionally slow, horrible deaths. Please sign petition here.
The Concrete Crocodile Prisons in Zimbabwe!
Tens of thousands of Nile crocodiles are kept in concrete pits from birth until their deaths at the site of one of the biggest exporters of crocodile skins in the world, located in Zimbabwe. Tens of thousands of Nile crocodiles are kept in concrete pits from birth until their deaths at the site of one of the biggest exporters of crocodile skins in the world, located in Zimbabwe.
They are denied the chance to perform activities that they would naturally do, such as playing, tunnel building, tending to their young, or utilizing tools to hunt. Nile crocodiles can live up to 80 years in their native settings, but at this facility, they are killed when they are just 3 years old.
A tannery run by Hermès receives a large number of belly skins, which are then turned into “luxury” goods such purses labeled “Birkin” and “Kelly,” which can cost $50,000 or more. To make one handbag, two or three crocodiles are needed. Please see video here.
Please Help Us Protect Animals Abused for Hermès Products!
In order to use their skin in Hermès items, ostriches are also slain. PETA investigators captured footage of slaughterhouse employees strangling every bird, shocking it with electricity, and then chopping off its throat.
Workers quickly removed the feathers from the still-warm birds’ bodies and skinned them. Please use the form below to urge that Hermès cease selling products produced from animal skins in light of this horrifying proof of animal torture utilized for “luxury” products. Please see video and petition here.
Top European fashion houses such as Hermés, Prada, Louis Vuitton, and others purchase ostrich skins from these slaughterhouses. Feathers, part of which are pulled from the skin of conscious ostriches, are sold for use in feather dusters, boas, and accessories, and for usage in events such as the Rio Carnival in Brazil and the Moulin Rouge. Additionally, ostrich meat is transported mostly to Europe and sold all around South Africa.
Call on Prada and Hermés to Give Up on Exotic Skins!
Together, we can force Hermés and Prada to eschew exotic skins like ostrich from their collections and to exclusively carry vegan clothing. Please see petition here.
Credit Photos: PETA.
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