Animals Suffer So The Rich Can Have Their Luxury Bags
In the wild, crocodiles and alligators live up to 70 years but these animals are captured and killed aged three to five. Beyond that, the skins are unusable, as they are covered in scars.
Crocodiles and alligators are poleaxed – bludgeoned over the head with a piece of pipe or a baseball bat.
An alternative method is the nape stab. A chisel is hammered into the back of the neck but the blow doesn’t kill the animal. It’s paralysed.
As the animal is so cold-blooded and has a slow metabolism, it can take two hours to die.
This means nearly all crocodiles and alligators are skinned alive.
All snakes are taken from the wild, caught in sacks, and taken to filthy backstreet operations to be skinned.
The snake is starved to make the skin looser but there is another, even more terrible stage in the process.
A tube is put down the snake’s throat and it is inflated with water to stretch the skin while it is still alive.
Then it is nailed by its head to a tree and the skin is sliced off.
Owing to a reptile’s slow metabolic rate, it takes days to die. Even if the head is chopped off, it can take a snake one to two hours to lose consciousness.
The luxury fashion industry will continue to sell their posh bags no matter its cost, not in pounds, euros or dollars, but in the lives of alligators, crocodiles and snakes.

