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Behind the leather

Behind the leather Featured

Some people tend to turn a blind eye to animal suffering when it comes to buying leather goods.

Every year, at least 440,000 pythons are caught in the jungles of Southeast Asia. They are cruelly decapitated and sometimes they are even skinned alive.

An average handbag requires the slaughter of not one, but four crocodiles.

Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Bangkok and PETA Asia teamed up to show the gruesome reality behind these so called trendy items.

They opened a fake pop-up shop in one of Bangkok’s most trendy shopping malls and put seemingly ordinary luxury leather goods on display.

However, they had a terrifying secret inside.

The inside of the bags, shoes, wallets, and other items was the ultimate definition of gore.

They contained fake animal flesh, blood, one bag even had a beating heart.
Unsuspecting shoppers jumped back in horror, gasping for breath. That’s what you call a wake-up call!

Watch how shoppers reacted to these bloody accessories here:

- Bored Panda

 


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Last modified on Monday, 16 May 2016 10:06