Gucci Owner Confronted With Shocking Python Slaughter [Video]

At Kering’s annual meeting, a representative of PETA US – which owns stock in the company – hammered executives with a request to cut ties with the vile reptile-skin industry before showing video footage from the most recent PETA Asia investigation into farms in Thailand that supply snakeskin to Kering-owned tannery Caravel. Here’s what was in this video:

Cruelty Behind Gucci Handbags

Kering is the parent company of Gucci, Saint Laurent, and other brands. The investigation above is the latest to uncover appalling cruelty at the group’s reptile-skin suppliers.

Before sensitive pythons are turned into purses and wallets, workers pin them down by the neck, bash them in the head with a hammer, and punch metal hooks through their heads.

To make the skin easier to remove, workers inflate the snakes with water, even as they continue to move. According to Dr Clifford Warwick, a reptile expert who reviewed the footage, it’s likely that …