Necks cut open and spines severed alive, just so they can be made into $40,000 Birkin handbags and watchstraps: The appalling suffering of crocodiles at designer leather farms exposed in undercover video

• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT  
• PETA has exposed the horrifying treatment of the reptiles at a Texas farm 
• They are shot in the head with a blot gun before their spines are severed 
• On occasion a box cutter is used to cut open their neck and sever arteries 
• Farmers admit some animals have to suffer in agony for several minutes 
• They are then skinned and sent to tanneries in the U.S. and France
• Here they are transformed into luxury fashion items for Hermes  

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