Fashion Cruelty Reaches a New Low

Written by: Amber McDonald Filed under: Animals, News

AlligatorEvery year, French goods group Hermes produces 3,000 crocodile leather bags, each of which requires the skins of three to four crocodiles. In an interview Monday, Hermes Chief Executive Patrick Thomas informed the world that the company would now be breeding its own crocodiles for skinning.

Although I was unable to locate the exact species of crocodile used by Hermes, many species are not solitary, but are social creatures. They respond to distress calls of their young and convey various social messages with motions, odor, postures, touch and sound. Despite these characteristics, however, the Hermes farms, located primarily in Australia, will isolate the crocodiles in separate rooms to minimize the damage to their skins from bites.

There is a waiting list of several years for some of Hermes exotic-skin bags, which cost around $50,000.

via Ecorazzi

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