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DESCRIPTION:San Franciisco – Shoppers at a busy San Francisco intersection will get 
 an eyeful on Tuesday as a PETA “reptile” lies in a pool of “blood” 
 outside retailer Hermès’ storefront. Painted to look like a crocodile 
 and flanked by a banner proclaiming, “Hermès: Accessories to Murder,” 
 the protester will call on consumers not to buy the skins of tormented 
 animals, whose plight PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals 
 are not ours to wear”—brought to light in a recent investigation that 
 was reported by CBSNews.com: 
 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/price-of-luxury-storied-brand-tied-to-animal-abuses/\n\n“PETA’s 
 exposé of Hermès suppliers in the U.S. and Africa reveals that every 
 Hermès watchband or Birkin bag means a living, feeling being experienced a 
 miserable life and a ghastly death,” says PETA President Ingrid E. 
 Newkirk. “People pay thousands of dollars for such accessories, but the 
 reptiles on these cruel and disgusting factory farms are paying the real 
 price.”\n\nPETA’s investigator documented the mistreatment of 
 alligators on a filthy Texas farm that supplies Hermès. After a 
 captive-bolt gun at the facility was believed to be malfunctioning, the 
 manager told a worker to cut into hundreds of live and fully conscious 
 alligators and try to dislocate their vertebrae and then shove a metal rod 
 up their spinal columns. Some reptiles were writhing minutes after their 
 necks were sawed open with a knife or box cutter in a crude effort to 
 slaughter them—all for $2,000 watchbands. Footage captured in Zimbabwe 
 showed that thousands of crocodiles were crowded into unnatural, barren 
 concrete pits for $40,000-plus Birkin and Kelly bags.\n\nFootage: 
 http://www.petaav.com/4broadcast/crocodiles_and_alligators_slaughtered_for_hermes_luxury_bags_and_watchbands.htm\n\nPhotos: 
 http://petaav.com/4broadcast/crocodile_and_alligator_skins_peta_investigation/\n\nFor 
 more information, please visit PETA.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/10/18775995.php
SUMMARY:‘Bloody’ PETA ‘Reptile’ in San Francisco to Protest Hermès Horror: Live Animals Sawed Open
LOCATION:Hermès, 125 Grant Ave., San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/08/10/18775995.php
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