Photo Op: ‘Python’ to Be Bashed by Hammer and ‘Skinned’ Outside Gucci Store

What:            PETA Asia supporters dressed as a snake and a python farm worker will reenact the slaughter and skinning of pythons used for their skins outside the Gucci store in Taipei’s busiest shopping district on Tuesday. The action follows the latest PETA Asia investigation revealing that workers at two python farms that supply skins to a tannery operated by Kering, owner of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, pinned struggling pythons down by the neck before bashing them over the head with a hammer and impaling them on hooks while they were still moving.

Where:          Outside Gucci, Shin Kong Mitsukoshi, 1/F, No. 19, Song Gao Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City

When:            Tuesday, August 6, 2 p.m. sharp

“These snakes spend their short lives confined to tiny, filthy boxes before being bashed with a hammer, pierced through the skull, and skinned,” says PETA Asia Senior Vice President Jason Baker. “PETA is calling on Kering to stop selling anything produced from the slaughter of pythons or other wild animals and switch to the cruelty-free vegan materials that compassionate consumers demand.”

PETA – 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 YouTube, Instagram, X, or Facebook.

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