The extent of materialism; skinning crocodiles for bags

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If you're interested, watch this video on how Hermes, the company that produces bags worth up to $150,000 brutally murder and skin crocodiles.

The ones made from crocodile retail for up to £25,000 or more. At a recent auction, a bag from last year sold for a record £146,000. Never have these items been in higher demand.

But tonight US animal rights activists claimed the thousands of alligators and crocodiles bred to provide the French firm’s skins for the bags are subjected at times to dreadful mistreatment before seemingly being slaughtered inhumanely.

Undercover filming by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) appears to show a world away from the glamour and luxury of A-lister fashion.

The reptiles are seen in cramped concrete pits – in some cases surrounded by faeces in brown water – in footage filmed at alligator and crocodile farms in Texas and Zimbabwe.

in one scene, allegedly filmed in Texas, workers stab knives into the backs of seemingly still conscious animals because bolt guns, which are usually used to stun them, cannot be found.

Crocodiles are cut open alive so their skin can be used for $40,000 Birkin handbags and luxury $2,000 watch straps, a horrifying undercover investigation has revealed.
In a video taken from a hidden camera, animal charity PETA has exposed how the reptiles are put through unimaginable suffering at a leather farm in Texas before they are brutally killed for fashion industry giant Hermes.
The animals at the Lone Star Alligator Farm in Winnie are forced to live in dirty, dark pits before they are dragged out by workers and placed on a table, struggling desperately to escape, and killed.
Their skin is then made into the handbags and watchstraps, which are known for having price tags in the thousands of dollars and are worn by a host of celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham and Ashton Kutcher.

I get really irritated and emotional when I see animals being tortured, or being used for materialism like this. I thought this was absolutely heartbreaking to watch, and it made me think of all those people who perform such tasks on animals without really feeling anything. Do they originally have that "ability" of NOT being able to feel any kind of remorse for these animals, or do they somehow end up in a job like this and have to cut the cords of emotion? It reminded me of when I seen the bears in China being cramped into small cages for medicinal purposes of their stomach bile, and one of the Mother bears ended up killing her offspring because she didn't want them to suffer the same fate.

It's astounding to think that some individuals may believe these acts are "for the better" - i.e. we're making this animal consciously suffer to save others, we are making this animal suffer for A BAG... I know it's all about money, what a surprise... but what happens to these peoples conscience? does anything happen at all?