Undercover Investigation
Dogs Slaughtered for Leather
You will never buy leather again after watching this video.
At the slaughterhouse, the investigator filmed workers as they grabbed one dog after another around the neck with metal pinchers and bashed them over the head with a wooden pole. Some dogs fell unconscious, while others cried out and writhed in agony. Some still struggled to breathe after their throats were cut before their skins were ripped off their bodies.
Dogs who were next in line for slaughter wailed and barked as a worker hit them in an effort to get them to walk more slowly. One employee told the investigator that this facility bludgeons and skins 100 to 200 dogs a day. When this video was shot, there were about 300 live dogs in the compound slated for slaughter.
The owner of one plant told the investigator that at the time, he had about 30,000 pieces of semi-processed dog leather in stock. The leather used in the gloves seen in the images below as well as in other dog-leather accessories is processed in factories such as these and sold all over the world.