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PETA has exposed suffering on reptile farms in the U.S. and Africa, and now eyewitness footage reveals the horrifying reality for tens of thousands of crocodiles in Vietnam raised and violently killed to make “luxury” leather bags sold around the world. Two of the farms investigated supply crocodile skins to Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH and “some of the biggest brands,” according to a farm owner. Please take a look at what purchases of crocodile-skin bags, belts, or watchbands could be supporting, and then take action to help stop this abuse.

PETA has exposed cruelty at reptile farms on three continents, and the story is always the same: grim, close confinement and a violent death. Before buying items made out of exotic skins like these, please stop and think of the animals they come from and their intense suffering. Don’t support this cruelty with your purchases.

Other animals exploited by the exotic skins trade suffer, too. Previously, PETA captured footage of ostriches —who are used for the bumpy-textured skin purses sold by Louis Vuitton—showing that they’re confined to barren dirt feedlots before being sent to slaughterhouses, where they’re forcibly restrained, electrically stunned, flipped upside down, and their throats are slit in full view of their terrified flockmates.

Before buying items made out of exotic skins like these, please stop and think of the animals they come from and their intense suffering. Don’t support this cruelty with your purchases.

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