Campaign against the cruel Exotic Skin Trade.

I already did posted some photo's from last week's Peta demo right here in Bangkok, in front of the Hrmes shop at the Emporium shopping mall at Sukhumvit, on the http://www.herwinsvegancafe.com/ website. The demo was part of a Peta campaign against the use of skins of reptiles  for the fashion industry. Peta has made an undercover investigation and did shoot some pretty impressive disgusting material of snakes being stripped from their skin and tossed in the garbage bins while still alive. Sickening. Not recommended but if you have doubts about the cruelties, please watch the Peta undercover video.

Besides the individual cruelty for the animals, whole forests are stripped from their native snake and other reptile populations and transferred into bags, boots and whatever.

Anyway.

It's amazing how effective these Peta campaigns are. All this protest needed was basically one activist girl bodypainted as a snake (some misstook her for a lizard though, probably because of the legs and arms) between a few plants. Costs : one ticket to get the Peta Girl from the Peta office in Manilla, and 6 plants.

The next days the generated attention in the newspapers was enormous. Many newspapers, Thai as well as newspapers from Mexico, Germany and Canada, had at least a photo from the Peta girl and some lines.

The Thai "Thaipim" newspaper had a full page about the campaign, see photo up, including photo's from the protests as well as various photo's from snakes being skinned and text about the exotic skin industry.

Thai newspaper "Thai Rath" , see photo below, had a photo showing the Snake Girl with a sign "HERMES animals suffer for exotic skins" and an Emporium guard (orange uniform and eyes closed, because he is a bit shy talking with a half naked farang woman) who elbows his way into the foreground and demands his 5 minutes of fame. Just kidding, he tries to pursue her to leave. HA ! All in vain, mr Orange, you don't know Peta , i guess, these grrrrls are tough like a rock. :-)

Anyway, money wise, this generated attention for an animal cruelty issue, is a total bargain, almost a giveaway.

Hey, wait a minute, who's that guy between the Lizard Woman and the Orange Superdude ? O wait, it's me... :-P