Exotic Skins – Save Crocodiles From Being Skinned

Before their skin reaches shop shelves, animals endure a life of misery, pain, and fear – and many are skinned alive.

PETA has repeatedly exposed the horrors within the exotic-skins industry. Thousands of snakes are cruelly confined and then bashed on the head with hammers and impaled with hooks while still moving. Lizards are tied up and beheaded without being stunned. Workers slit ostriches’ throats just for Birkin bags – the birds must wait in line as their friends are slaughtered one by one. In a PETA exposé of the exotic-skins industry, a worker employed a crude “nape stab” method to kill a crocodile, attempting to sever the spinal cord and likely causing extreme pain and a slow, agonising death. The animal’s legs continued to move for at least 23 minutes.

These are just some examples of the cruelty inherent in the exotic-skins industry. Every bag, belt, or other item made from the skin of an animal is the product of horrific abuse. Please never wear or buy exotic skins.

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Brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent, and LVMH have been linked to PETA’s exposés. Please tell them all to drop exotic skins now.

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How Gucci Bags and Belts Are Made: Workers Decapitate Lizards

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Eva Dalla Venezia

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I just watched PETA Asia’s investigation into an Indonesian abattoir that supplies your company with lizard skin. The footage shows lizards being callously thrown around, struck with a machete, and beheaded without stunning to make bags, belts, wallets, and other fashion accessories. Please stop profiting from this abuse and drop exotic skins.

According to reptile experts, decapitating live, conscious reptiles is highly inhumane, because it doesn’t cause an instantaneous death. Lizards’ brains can remain conscious for over 30 minutes after they have been beheaded.

PETA’s previous exposés have shown that pythons in Vietnam are killed by being inflated with compressed air and that crocodiles are electroshocked, stabbed, inflated, and then likely skinned alive. PETA also obtained footage of ostriches – whose skin is used for the bumpy-textured purses sold by Gucci – showing that they’re kept in barren dirt feedlots before being sent for slaughter, where they’re forcibly restrained, electrically stunned, and flipped upside down, and then their throats are slit in full view of their terrified flockmates.

No matter what “standards” your parent company, Kering, touts, there is simply no kind way to kill a living being who does not want to die. Gucci has already made the compassionate decision to ban fur and angora – please stop supporting animal abuse by also ending your sales of exotic skins.

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