Struggling Alligators STABBED in Shocking Video

 

PETA’s latest investigation shows shocking conditions for animals in Texas and Africa who are forced to suffer and die for “luxury” bags, belts, and watchbands.

ETA’s investigator documented that workers crudely hacked into the necks of some alligators and tried to scramble their brains with metal rods—all in the name of “luxury.”

 

Some animals were still conscious, kicking and flailing, even minutes after workers tried to kill them.

 

 

Alligators Suffer Gruesome Deaths in Texas

In Winnie, Texas, there’s an alligator factory that sends skins to an Hermès-owned tannery, and there, PETA’s investigator found alligators kept in extremely smelly and dark sheds without sunshine, fresh air, clean water, or even basic medical care. At just 1 year old, alligators are shot with a captive-bolt gun or crudely cut into while they’re still conscious and able to feel pain. Our investigator documented the following actions by workers there:

• repeatedly shooting alligators in the head with a captive-bolt gun
• cutting into more than 500 conscious alligators, some of whom struggled to escape
• stabbing conscious alligators to try to dislocate their vertebrae—even though a manager had admitted that “reptiles will continue to live” after that

The investigator saw alligators continuing to move their legs and tails in the rack where they were put to bleed out and in bloody ice bins several minutes after workers had attempted to slaughter them. These living, feeling animals are referred to as “watchbands” by the manager as if they were inanimate objects.  

 

Zimbabwe's Concrete Crocodile Prisons

At the facility of one of the world’s largest exporters of Nile crocodile skins in Zimbabwe, Africa, tens of thousands of crocodiles are confined to concrete pits from birth to slaughter. They are deprived of the opportunity to engage in their natural behavior, including digging tunnels, protecting their young, and searching for food as they would do in nature.

In the wild, Nile crocodiles can live to be up to 80 years old, but at this facility they are slaughtered at the age of around 3.

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You Can Help Stop This!

After the alligators’ and crocodiles’ miserable lives and sometimes slow, gruesome deaths, their skins are sent to Hermès-owned tanneries and made into “luxury” items like $2,000 watchbands and $40,000 handbags. Tell Hermès to stop selling products made out of crocodile and alligator skins now! 

And remember: NEVER buy any product made out of animal skin.

 

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