PHOTOS: Nearly Naked Protester’s Message: Skin Is Skin

Posted on by Nirali Shah

Clad only in lingerie, this PETA supporter, along with members of Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth (CARE), took to the streets of Seoul outside a Prada store to call on the retailer to drop cruel ostrich-skin bags from its shelves.

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The origin of the leather used for Prada handbags would shock even the most hardened fashionistas.

The protest follows the recently released first-ever exposé of the highly secretive industrial ostrich-slaughter industry, in which young ostriches are kept in barren dirt feedlots until they are trucked to slaughterhouses. The 1-year-old birds are then turned upside down in a stunner and ejected so that workers can slit their throats and pluck out their feathers, creating the bumpy-textured skin used in Prada’s handbags and store sofas.

What You Can Do

Your choices make a difference—the easiest thing that you can do to help animals is never to purchase ostrich or any other animal skin or feathers. Instead, choose from the many stylish cruelty-free accessories available from compassionate retailers.