PETA activists protested outside the Hermès store in Neva York over the use of exotic skins. They demanded to opt for alternatives like other designers
Organizational activists People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (MAP) staged a protest this Wednesday in front of the Hermes located in the luxurious Madison Avenue in New York to show his rejection of the use of the brand’s exotic skins.
MAP, which claims to be a shareholder of Hermes, thus tried to draw attention to the company’s supposed plan to develop what would become the crocodile farm bigger than Australia, while pointing out that the cruel and unsanitary conditions of this type of enclosure are precisely those that have led to COVID-19.
Consumers who are understanding and committed to environment they know what they want, and that’s crocodile and fake snakenot the skin of someone who has been tortured, “PETA’s executive vice president said in a statement, Tracy Reiman.
“PETA urge a Hermes to adopt innovative materials and avant-garde as other designers are doing, because a look ‘death“It does not mean that you have to kill animals,” he added.
In front of the Hermès store, five girls dressed in yellow plastic overalls and gas masks stood, referring to the coronavirus pandemic, and dressed in high heels and some posters in the shape of the exclusive bag “Kelly“, In which messages such as” exotic skins are cruel: dress vegan “, or” prevent the pandemic: prohibit the exotic skins“.
