Germana Carillo Abused and Tortured to Make Bags and Shoes: A Disturbing First-of-Its-Kind Investigation by PETA Asia Reveals Exactly How Pythons Are Killed for LVMH's Snakeskin Bags and Shoes
Repeatedly battered with hammers, trampled on, suspended, waterlogged, likely still alive. All such luxuries are the accessories and bags that we buy, all of them being derived from such atrocities in terms of this real torture of snakes, undertaken by firms like the very high-end Louis Vuitton.
PETA Asia uncovers dismaying torture of snakes
For the umpteenth time, PETA Asia unveiled horrors that would make people shiver. Its agents witnessed laborers in actual slaughterhouses repeatedly trying to kill or knock pythons on the head, causing unimaginable pain and distress, loss of consciousness, or death.
Workers were seen hanging pythons on strings, inserting tubes into their throats and other orifices, and filling them with water in an effort to stretch their skin, making it easy to remove, the report further states.
We are once more confronted with another inhumane and unacceptable practice.
Pythons slashed with razor blades and skinned alive
A reptile specialist who watched the video confirmed that it is probable that the pythons were “aware the entire time” during the process of attempted slaughter. Because of the abnormal physiology of snakes, there are some that can take weeks or hours to die after exposure to these inhumane slaughter techniques.
It therefore means that several of the snakes were very likely alive while being skinned and gutted by workers.
Investigators saw at least one snake’s tail quiver when a worker used a razor blade to slice the skin of the animal, and saw workers being careless with regard to observing vital signs prior to skinning.
Louis Vuitton is no stranger to such cruelty
This is not the first time PETA has protested LVMH’s supply chain for cruelty. A previous PETA Asia investigation into Vietnamese crocodile farms that supply LVMH with skins revealed thousands of reptiles lying still in filthy, packed concrete pits, some smaller than their own bodies.
PETA U.S. also saw photographs of ostriches—whose hides are turned into bags carried by Louis Vuitton—held in dry ground enclosures for about a year before being shipped off to the slaughterhouse. They are physically restrained, electroshocked, and thrown over onto their backs, their throats slit in front of the other members of the flock.
It’s Time to Stop This Atrocity
