Photo Op: PETA’s Bloody ‘Snakes’ Push for Protection Ahead of Chinese New Year

Photo Op: PETA’s Bloody ‘Snakes’ Push for Protection Ahead of Chinese New Year

What:             Ssssstop wearing snakeskin! To mark the upcoming Year of the Snake, PETA supporters wearing “bloody” snake suits will be tied to a pole near the Carriedo Fountain alongside banners proclaiming, “Happy Year of the Snake: Don’t Wear Their Skin!” The disturbing visual sheds light on the suffering of snakes whose skin is stolen for bags, watchbands, shoes, and more…

The event follows the release of shocking new footage today, revealing the horrific cruelty in the ‘exotic’ skins industry—snakes are beaten, beheaded, impaled, and inflated, and many remain conscious as their skin is torn from their bodies.

“The only way to truly celebrate the Year of the Snake is to ditch snakeskin,” says PETA Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA urges everyone to let these shy reptiles keep their skins and live in peace, as they deserve.”

Where:           In front of the Carriedo Fountain, Ongpin Street, Chinatown, Manila

When:             Thursday, 23 January, 12 noon

Interviews will be available on-site and remotely. Photos of the protest will be available here after 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Why:               Snakes are complex beings who smell with their tongues, have strong homing instincts, prefer to associate with their relatives, and have been on this Earth for more than 100 million years. PETA investigations into snake farms and slaughterhouses in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand reveal that snakes killed for their skins are often housed in cramped, filthy boxes and may be bludgeoned with hammers, impaled, inflated with water, and skinned while they’re still conscious.

PETA Asia—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAAsia.com or follow the group on X, Facebook, or Instagram.

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