The Hermès crocodile bags on the other hand, according to managing director kept individually in cages. Of a “new trend in the industry,” says Dietrich Jelden by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. Whether the entertainment in a two-meter-wide crate is not animal cruelty? “One should not forget: The brain of a crocodile is pea in freedom, they often do not move for days from the spot..” Reptile expert Baur reported similar, limits, however: “If it goes so far that the animals can not turn, it is torture only beings with the potential of an amoeba could feel at home there..” Hermès insured upon request, that would respect the stance on the highest standards.
The animal rights organization PETA has criticized for its commitment to the Hermès crocodile breeding recent sharp. Other organizations are more cautious, not least because the farms have rescued the reptile from extinction. With decades of commercial hunting of many stocks in the early seventies were almost wiped out. Time that the first farms that also exposing animals to the wild. “This is still one of the best examples of a success story in conservation,” said Volker Homes, conservation director at WWF-Germany. Whether the slayer of the “Birkin bag” for this story of interest, is another matter.