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Necks cut open and spines severed alive,
just so they can be made into $40,000 Birkin handbags and
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com
Crocodiles are cut open alive so their skin
can be used for $40,000 Birkin handbags and luxury $2,000 watch straps, a
horrifying undercover investigation has revealed.
In a video taken from a hidden camera,
animal charity PETA has exposed how the reptiles are put through unimaginable
suffering at a leather farm in Texas before they are brutally killed for
fashion industry giant Hermes.
The animals at the Lone Star Alligator Farm
in Winnie are forced to live in dirty, dark pits before they are dragged out by
workers and placed on a table, struggling desperately to escape, and killed.
Their skin is then made into the handbags
and watchstraps, which are known for having price tags in the thousands of
dollars and are worn by a host of celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow,
Victoria Beckham and Ashton Kutcher.
Curel: Animal charity PETA has exposed how
the reptiles are put through unimaginable suffering at a leather farm in Texas
before they are brutally killed for fashion industry giant Hermes
Torture: After they are shot in the head
with a bolt gun their necks are sawed open, sometimes with a box cutter, to
sever the blood vessels
Torture: After they are shot in the head
with a bolt gun their necks are sawed open, sometimes with a box cutter, to
sever the blood vessels
Popular brand: The Birkin handbags, made by
Hermes from the skin of the crocodiles, are a favorite for celebrities
including Victoria Beckham
Q:
What do you think about Crocodiles are cut
open alive so their skin can be used for watch straps, handbags?
What do you think about Birkin handbags? What
do you think about Hermes?
What do you think luxury products?
Should we protect animal rights?
Why celebrities are a favorite for birkin
handbags?
What do you think about celebrity’s luxury
lives?
最有人情味國家
The World's Friendliest Countries forbes.com
Living abroad doesn’t have to lead to
homesickness. That’s especially true for people who have relocated to New
Zealand, Australia or South Africa.
These are the three nations where it’s
easiest to befriend locals, learn the local language, integrate into the
community and fit into the new culture, according to the results of HSBC’s
Expat Explorer Survey, released last month.
New Zealand, in the top spot, had high
scores in all four categories. Seventy-five percent of respondents living there
reported that they were integrating well in the local community; in Australia
it was 77% and in South Africa 79%.
“New Zealanders as a whole seem like happy
people, and that translates into friendly, helpful and kind people,” notes
American expat Kim Brinster. Other positive aspects, she says, include a
“pitch-in-and-help mentality,” as well as navigable government and health-care
systems. A former New York City bookstore owner, she relocated two years ago to
Waiheke Island, off Auckland, to be with her New Zealander partner. She has no
plans to leave.
HSBC surveyed 3,385 expatriates in 100
countries between May and July 2011. Because countries with fewer than 30
respondents were deemed statistically insignificant, the findings rank a total
of only 31 countries. Bermuda, which ranked highly last year, was not included
this year because it had too few respondents.
“As the largest global survey of expats,
Expat Explorer allows us to capture invaluable insights into expat life and how
it differs from country to country, continent to continent and from an expats’
home country of origin,” says Lisa Wood, head of marketing for HSBC. “We want
to be a business that truly understands its customers so that we can ensure our
products and services meet their needs effectively.”
Respondents rated their host countries on a
slew of factors related to economics, raising children and overall experience.
To determine which were the friendliest,
Forbes isolated the results in four categories: ability to befriend locals,
success in learning the local language, capacity for integrating themselves
into the community, and ease in which they fit into the new culture. All play
into the ability of expats to create a new support structure, which New
York-based expat coach Heather Markel says is among the biggest challenges when
relocating.
“Because a majority of expats are so
focused on closing the life they are leaving, they end up depressed at some
point after relocating, because by not focusing on creating their new life
before arriving, they end up with ‘nothing’—no friends locally, nothing
familiar, a feeling of loss,” says Markel, who heads the Expat Coach
Association, a trade organization with 120 members. “Other challenges include
learning a new language, experiencing new foods, more or less convenience, how
genders might be treated. The sense of loss for what they liked in the culture
they left can be a big challenge, as can a changed lifestyle.”
Q:
In your opinion where the world's
friendliest countries?
Is Taiwan a friendly countries to visitors?
What do you think of living condition/
lifestyle in Taiwan?
Where are the best countries to live?
Which lifestyle do you like: a village or a
city?
What are the reasons why you should move to
another city?
血染柏金包 鱷魚遭斷頸抽脊椎
2015-06-27 03:25:47 世界日報 編譯中心／綜合25日電
PETA臥底人員去年深入位於德州的鱷魚皮工場，發現正常情況下，工廠人員會先用電槍擊暈鱷魚，再用鋸刀割頸放血。但當電槍無法使用時，工廠經理竟叫員工 直接把刀插進清醒鱷魚的脊椎，使其與身體抽離，再用棒刺入腦部殺害，受害鱷魚達500條之多。專家指，鱷魚是高智能動物，沒電暈下便移走脊椎，會令牠們極 其痛苦。 鱷魚被屠宰後，遭放到一個浸滿血水的水缸，屍疊屍的場面相當恐怖，有的鱷魚最久會花上6到8小時才死亡。鱷魚的壽命比人類還長，但這裡的鱷魚往往在僅三歲便被屠宰，工廠最終會冷藏鱷魚皮，再送到位於美國其他地方或法國的皮革廠加工。
辛巴威某鱷魚皮工廠負責人稱屠宰作法符合國際規範，「我們每年將4200條鱷魚剝皮，是世上最大的尼羅鱷養殖商。」然其養殖地面積狹窄，卻住有220條鱷魚，常互相踐踏。
PETA指，上述兩個工場都向愛馬仕供應鱷魚皮，製作手袋、手表帶、銀包和鞋子，「人們大花金錢買這些配件，但在殘忍和令人作嘔的工廠內，鱷魚才付上真正代價。」
1包殺3鱷 愛馬仕柏金包為名人必備潮物，鱷魚皮款更見矜貴，好萊塢女星Beyonce、「貝嫂」維多利亞(見圖，取材自英國每日郵報)等人皆擁有。一個包款動輒數十萬，是富人身分的象徵。但其實一個鱷魚皮柏金包，需用上三條鱷魚的肚皮。
柏金包是愛馬仕已故行政總裁迪馬，為英國女歌手柏金特地設計。鱷魚皮款柏金包大部分價錢10萬美元起跳。有顧客足足等了六年，才訂購到喜歡的款式。
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