WATCHBANDS OR BIRKIN BAGS PART ONE

Welcome to the exotic-skins trade,in which living,feeling beings are viewed as nothing more than walking accessories,P.E.T.A. investigators went inside facilities in Texas and Zimbabwe that supply skins to tanneries owned by the luxury fashion house Hermes and what they found will make your blood run cold.In Texas,workers shot alligators in the head with a captive-bolt gun and sawed into the backs of their necks with box cutters.Many baby alligators were shot repeatedly,but some still survived this ordeal and their legs or tails continued to move even after they were hung upside down in a bleed rack or put into bloody bins of ice and water before being skinned.A manager in Texas stabbed four concious alligators with a knife in an apparent attempt to dislocate their cervical vertibrae as they struggled.The manager later admitted that alligators do survive that procedure.On several days when the manager believed that the captive-bolt gun was not working properly,he told a worker to cut into more than five hundrad concious alligators whose legs and tails flailed in response to the torment.