PETA Proposes Anti-Croc Skin Placard For Big Boxing Croc
As Australian shoppers prepare to descend on annual Boxing Day sales, PETA has sent an unusual proposal to Litchfield Mayor Rachael Wright, asking to place a protest placard in the crook of Humpty Doo’s Big Boxing Croc’s arm. With the message “I’m not your Boxing Day bag”, the addition would call on holiday shoppers to avoid buying items made from wild-animal skins.
Crocodiles and other animals hacked to pieces within the fashion industry endure miserable lives of on filthy factory farms before being skinned – often while fully conscious. PETA urges shoppers to avoid buying any items made from crocodile or other wild skins. No matter how big the savings, nothing beats saving an animal’s life.
Australia supplies 60% of the world’s crocodile skins used in fashion, mostly from animals kept in putrid concrete tanks barely bigger than their bodies. The wild skins trade perpetuates egregious abuse against complex individuals. Crocodiles are doting parents, ostriches are social birds, and some snakes can sense and alleviate social anxiety in others.
Multiple PETA exposés have revealed fashion industry workers bludgeoning live snakes with hammers; hacking at crocodiles’ necks and shoving metal rods down their spines; chopping off conscious lizards’ heads with machetes; and slitting ostriches’ throats in full view of their terrified flock mates. It takes as many as four crocodiles to make a single Hermès bag.
Many designers, including Mulberry, Victoria Beckham, Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Smith, Chanel, and Stella McCartney, have banned exotic skins from their collections.
It’s time for Hermès to drop these cruelly obtained materials, too. Join our campaign – send Hermès a message now:
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