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Stock Purchase to Allow Push for End to Cruel Ostrich-Skin Purse
London – Following an eyewitness exposé
which revealed that 1-year-old ostriches are electrocuted and have
their throats slit for "luxury" ostrich-skin bags, PETA US has become a
Prada shareholder – an action that will allow the animal rights charity
to attend Prada's annual meetings and officially call on the company to
end all exotic-skins sales.
"Every
pockmarked Prada purse represents a sensitive young ostrich who was
turned upside down, killed and plucked in a miserable and terrifying
abattoir", says PETA Director Mimi Bekhechi. "PETA US is taking the
fight against cruelty straight to Prada's boardroom – and demanding a
permanent end to ostrich-skin handbags."
PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that "animals are not ours to wear" – released
video footage from the largest ostrich-slaughter companies in the
world, which exposed that young ostriches are kept in barren dirt
feedlots until they are trucked to slaughter at just 1 year of age, far
short of their natural 40-year
life expectancy. At the abattoir, birds are turned upside down in a
stunner, have their throats slit and have their feathers plucked out –
creating the bumpy-textured skin used for Prada bags.
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