I just opened the PETA Website and what i see: Such a wonderful ad - my compliments! Lisa B is a very fine Lady and superb!!! I got tears in my eyes! Thank you!

Posted by: FREE BURMA | October 11, 2007 02:42 PM

I read that article and I think the most shocking part is that the snakes who are skinned alive and discarded can take days to finally die. Can you imagine!?! Laying there in agony for days, without any skin?

Posted by: Allen | October 11, 2007 02:50 PM

It just never ends does it ! vanity vanity all is vanity.

Posted by: keith | October 11, 2007 03:11 PM

It just never ends does it ! vanity vanity all for vanity.

Posted by: keith | October 11, 2007 03:12 PM

How can anyone want to wear reptile! This is 2007 not 1950's. Naomi Campbell maybe pretty but her compassion is ugly! She minds well be the killer and others like her. How can these murderers sleep at night? Answer: they have no souls.

Posted by: Carla | October 11, 2007 03:23 PM

LISA B,
You are one amazing woman.
Your heart and soul are as beautiful as you are.
Thank you for speaking out for the voiceless.

Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter | October 11, 2007 03:56 PM

Holy crap, that is DISGUSTING. I had no idea that's how reptile skins were made. Not that I'd wear them anyway, but ew.

Posted by: Becci | October 11, 2007 04:03 PM

that is just sick, whoever kills reptiles like this is fucked in the head, stupid idiots have no morals!!

Posted by: carolyn | October 11, 2007 04:31 PM

Powerful!

Posted by: Ana | October 11, 2007 05:03 PM

I was at the unveiling yesterday, at the end of New Bond Street, across from Burberry, which I must say was very interesting. Funny enough there was a woman wrapped in a large fur coat. With the snake itself though, I believe that how they perform the skinning is quite cruel and there should be a new method especailly if they contiue to practice. The snake however, is becomming a pest throughout the Florida Everglades: it is dominating all wildlife, including that of the aligators.

Posted by: John Seligman | October 12, 2007 03:45 AM

J.S. whom created the so called problem ( snakes ) in the ' Glades ' why irresponsible human kind., who buy exotic pets : And when they become a problem or no longer wanted : Abandon the ' same.' Natural numbers of species are controlled by the pecking order.

Posted by: keith | October 12, 2007 01:27 PM

Thank you for posting this article. I figured that the cruel business of turning live animals into shoes, purses, or whatever, had to be horrendous... but after reading the different practices that are employed to separate the animals from their skins, puts everything into perspective.

I feel so bad for these animals that are robbed of their skin and left to suffer horribly and die.

Posted by: V.Soto | October 12, 2007 03:41 PM

Fab.

Posted by: Kara | October 12, 2007 05:22 PM

To know that there is no end to the types of maniacal, unconscienable, barbarians living among us. I'm convinced they HAVE to be a species of sub-humans.

Posted by: Ariel | October 12, 2007 10:28 PM

This is a great ad - very well done. It expresses without words or any need to explain, and it shows the true nature of that awful "trade", from the snake's point of view.

Naomi Campbell and company: There is NO legitimate reason to wear anyone's skin but your own, and when you do so you are practicing and condoning animal cruelty.

Posted by: Susannah S | October 13, 2007 03:16 PM

I believe someone from an Animal Rights org. should be at the bullriding contests. The Brazilian tie is a left handed tie and is pulled so tight the bull can barely breathe and they hurt so bad they lie down in the shute. Also some of the cowboys soak their rope so it pulls on the bulls skin and hurts so they can ride for 8 sec. If you can't ride fairly then get out of the ring.

Posted by: evelyn klein | October 13, 2007 08:28 PM

To John Seligman:
"The snake is becoming a pest throughout the Florida Everglades."
Hmmm. THEY might say the same about PEOPLE!

Posted by: Susannah S | October 14, 2007 10:10 AM

You know, many people think that reptiles have no feelings, no personality, no redeeming features at all. When I was kid in West Virginia, I had a black snake, six feet long, living at my house. I named him Spike. His tail had been run over by a bicycle and I had found him injured in the road. I brought him home, much to my mother's chagrain, and bandaged his tail with an Ace bandage. The tail healed, but it crooked after that, so that Spike looked a little like a crowbar. Spike loved to curl around my arm to get warm and he would get up and look in my face as if really curious about what kind of creature I was. My Mom was afraid of him but he never bit anyone, although he did eat mice if he found them. He lived with us for several months and was released back into the woods. I'm writing this now just to tell you that it was an amazing experience for a little kid, having this big snake for a friend. I never saw him again, but among the many animals that my brother and I rescued, from hunters, from cars in the road, from malicious boys with B-B guns, Spike sticks in my memory today as a beautiful, dignified, forever wild creature, so alien and different from our species and such an elegant ambassador for his. The very idea that a creature like this should end up as a wallet makes me nauseated and very, very sad.

Posted by: Susannah S | October 14, 2007 10:22 AM

Well said, Ariel!!! I have to agree.

Posted by: Ana | October 14, 2007 04:00 PM

This title is a bit misleading.

Posted by: Mr. Chief | October 27, 2007 12:18 AM

Having a pet snake myself, I know that they are certainly smarter than most people think. He feels anger, fear, and pain just as well as any human. Vanity is no excuse for monstrosity!

Posted by: Jay | February 2, 2008 04:47 AM

peta! you are great!
i am vegan and am doing a project
on factory farming and wondered if you could help?!

Posted by: ME | February 8, 2008 03:00 PM