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Trying to scramble conscious animals’ brains with metal rods should be banned everywhere. Instead, some humans reward this violence with $50,000 or more of their money—all for a single Birkin bag from Hermès. 🤯 Urge the company to stop using wild animals’ skin for its bags, belts, and watchbands!
This violence might be happening in your own backyard! In Winnie, Texas, there’s an alligator factory that sent skins to an Hermès-owned tannery. PETA’s investigator found that the alligators were kept in stinking water and dark sheds without sunshine, fresh air, clean water, or basic medical care.
At just 1 year old, alligators were shot with a captive-bolt gun or cut into. If you think this is quick and painless, think again. Our investigator saw alligators moving their legs and tails in the bleed rack and bloody ice bins several minutes after workers tried to slaughter them. 😱
Across the Atlantic, at a facility in Zimbabwe, tens of thousands of crocodiles are confined to concrete pits from birth ‘til they’re slaughtered at around three years old. 😢
Their belly skins are sent to an Hermès-owned tannery to become items like “Birkin” and “Kelly” handbags. Idk about you, but walking around with a slaughtered three-year-old’s skin around my shoulder doesn’t sound fashionable at all.
Ostriches aren’t safe from Hermès’ products, either. PETA investigators filmed slaughterhouse workers restraining them, electrically stunning them, cutting their throats, and skinning them. 😡
No accessory is worth this cruelty—please use the form below to demand that Hermès stop selling items made from wild animals’ skins!