Chanel Women's Pre-Loved Black Lamb Tote

I just learned about an expose into an Indonesian slaughterhouse that supplies Gucci with lizard skin. The footage shows lizards being callously thrown around, struck with a machete, and beheaded without stunning to make bags, belts, wallets, and other fashion accessories. Gucci needs to stop profiting from this abuse and drop exotic skins.According to reptile experts, decapitating live, conscious reptiles is highly inhumane, because it doesn’t cause an instantaneous death. Lizards’ brains can remain conscious for over 30 minutes after they have been beheaded.As I understand, pythons in Vietnam are killed by being inflated with compressed air and that crocodiles are electroshocked, stabbed, inflated, and then likely skinned alive. I understand there is footage of ostriches—whose skin is used for the bumpy-textured purses sold by Gucci—showing that they’re kept in barren dirt feedlots before being sent for slaughter, where they’re forcibly restrained, electrically stunned, and flipped upside down, and then their throats are slit in full view of their terrified flockmates.No matter what “standards” Gucci's parent company, Kering, touts, there is simply no kind way to kill a living being who does not want to die. Gucci has already made the compassionate decision to ban fur and angora. I won't buy this bag until Gucci ends its sales of exotic skins.