PETA against Hermes

I guess it wouldn’t be news for you that Hermes own farms in Australia to breed crocodiles for the purpose of using their skin to make bags. When I heard it for the first time I asked myself if PETA would react to this information. It took some time though for the animal-protecting group to respond.

So, here what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stated:

"The thought of purposely breeding and killing crocodiles for an outdated, overpriced handbag should make any fashionista’s skin crawl. If Hermes really wants to be a leader in the fashion industry, it should stop killing animals for cold-blooded vanity and use cruelty-free mock croc and fake snake instead.”

Pink who recently provided the voice of a computer-generated crocodile in PETA’s commented the situation:

"Killing animals for their skins is so disgusting that it doesn’t make me want to befriend designers who use them.”

Just to make you aware: it can take three to four crocodiles to make one bag, which can later sell for approximately $50,000.

In my opinion, all this fuss about crocodile farms should be stopped. Hermes doesn’t kill wild crocodiles. They breed their own crocs for that. It’s all the same as people raise domestic animals for killing and further eating.

Faux leather and fur is quite all right and I love them much more than natural ones but at the same time I’m not strongly against producers who use natural materials if these are taken by killing animals specially intended for that.

Tell me what do you think about it?