PHOTO: ‘Python’ Bashed by Hammer Outside Gucci Store

A PETA supporter dressed as a snake will had her head bashed by plastic hammer outside the Gucci store on Canton Road on Wednesday following a recent PETA 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.

“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 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.”