Recently, PETA went undercover to document Indonesia's thriving exotic-skins industry. What we found was shocking and gut-wrenching. Stolen from their jungle homes, snakes are decapitated or skinned alive. Video footage shows skinless, headless snakes writhing and twitching in a pile. Because of their slow metabolism, many suffer for hours or even days until they finally die. Others slowly suffocate to death. Lizards slowly have their throats cut; afterward, many continue to struggle to breathe. Farmed crocodiles are kept in filthy, crowded tanks and then beaten to death. Like other reptiles, they're often skinned alive.
