We show you how Hermès watch straps are made

    We show you how Hermès watch straps are made

    Crocodiles crammed into concrete pits and alligators crammed into filthy tubs. All brutally killed for their skins before they could even reach adulthood

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    Crocodiles crammed into concrete pits and alligators herded in filthy tubs. All brutally killed for their skins before they could even reach adulthood.





    A new PETA US investigation into alligator and crocodile farms leather suppliers for the tanneries owned by Hermes colossus of haute couture and ready-to-wear, unveils terrible conditions, but also alleged violations of state and federal laws of the United States, in the case of a farm in Texas.

    The reptiles, trapped in arid crowded wells, they were slaughtered with knives or cutters, all for the production of Birkin bags for over £ 25,000 or watches costing £ 1,000. The documentation prompted PETA US and its affiliates to ask Hermès to eliminate the production and sale of exotic leather products, which have a high cost to wildlife.

    A complaint was also filed with the Texan authorities regarding the acts of cruelty to animals taken at the Lone Star Alligator Farms in Winnie, Texas, where the workers they shot alligators in the head, even more than once, with pneumatic bolt guns, and slaughtered the animals with a cutter to cut the veins.

    Some of the specimens survived this horror: they were still moving in chilled water cans for the next few minutes. In cases where the bolt gun proved ineffective, the facility manager ordered a worker to hack hundreds of sentient alligators, trying to dislocate their vertebrae, then continuing with theinserting a metal rod into their spinal columns to attempt to damage their brains.

    The perpetrator referred to live alligators as “watch straps”, as some of their skins are used for the “luxury” bands of Hermès wristwatches.

    It did not fare better at Padenga Holdings Crocodile Farms in Kariba, Zimbabwe, which supplies skins for Birki bags. Here each concrete pit was filled with over 200 massed crocodiles. Padenga is one of the largest Nile crocodile farms in the world and is responsible for 85 percent of the global supply of crocodile skins for brands of the fashion and luxury, with 43.000 animals killed in 2014 alone. The company also holds 50 percent of the trade in Texas.



    “PETA's discoveries of what happened at the Hermès suppliers in the United States and in Africa they show living, sentient beings who have lived a miserable life and suffered one horrible death ", says Mimi Bekhechi, Director of PETA. “Consumers spend thousands of pounds on these accessories, but animals pay the true cost of these disgusting, cruel breeding ".



     

    Roberta Ragni

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