Animal rights group PETA says luxury brand Gucci is supplied by factory farms that skin still-moving pythons for their hides.
Pythons are bashed with hammers, impaled on hooks and skinned alive to provide skins used by Italian luxury brand Gucci to craft handbags, shoes and belts that sell for hundreds if not thousands of dollars, according to an investigation by animal rights group PETA, which gave its findings exclusively to CBS MoneyWatch.
Closed Cycle Breeding International in Thailand's Uttaradit Province confirmed in an invoice that it had a contract to supply 5,000 python skins this year to Caravel Pelli Pregiate, an Italian tannery owned by Gucci — which bought a majority stake in the company in 2001 and then the tannery outright in 2008.In its 2022 financial report, Kering listed Caraveli Pelli Pregiate SpA as a fully consolidated entity.
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