A protestor with animal rights organisation PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) was detained by Grand Ducal police yesterday after protesting cruelty to reptiles outside a designer boutique on Rue Philippe II in Luxembourg City.
The woman in question lay on the street wearing only crocodile-print leggings and covered in a blood-like substance, with a sign declaring 'Accessoires sanglants (Bloody accessories)'.
The protest followed a PETA report revealing the conditions reptiles are kept in at farms supplying crocodile and alligator skins to the fashion industry. PETA found that the reptiles were kept in overcrowded and murky ponds and that the killing process, involving sawing the neck of the alligators, did not immediately kill the animals who continued to move for several minutes after the action.
The investigation by the US branch of PETA claimed that employees shot the alligators several times successively with a stun gun and sawed at their necks to attempt to sever the blood vessels, but that the process was often unsuccessful and the animals were spotted moving around a few minutes later.
The protest was done to reaffirm PETA's motto of 'animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way'.
Photo by PETA
