Horrific Vietnamese Frogs’ Leg Industry Exposed in New Investigation

Sydney – A new PETA exposé has revealed gruesome, systemic abuse in the Vietnamese frog meat industry, with workers mutilating, skinning, and dismembering fully conscious frogs with scissors while the animals writhed in agony.

Undercover video footage shows that frogs farmed for their legs were stuffed into crowded sacks and dumped into large vats of ice water before slaughter—a highly ineffective stunning method that failed to render many of them unconscious. Frogs were still squirming inside the bags as workers removed them from the vats to be slaughtered. Many continued to move and vocalise after workers cut into their backs with scissors, with one frog even jumping across the table in a desperate bid to escape after being sliced wide open. Workers then tore the skin from the frogs’ bodies and tossed them into plastic bins or piled them onto filthy tables. Skinless frogs were seen breathing, thrashing, and even leaping out from piles of corpses. Finally, workers used scissors to decapitate and dismember the frogs, but many of their headless bodies continued to move for several minutes.

Several frogs were still alive – some even leaping across the table – after the skin was torn from their bodies. Credit: PETA

“Frogs endured excruciating suffering, fully conscious as they were sliced open, skinned alive, and dismembered for their legs,” says PETA Senior Campaigns Advisor Mimi Bekhechi. “PETA is calling on everyone to help end this horrific abuse – and prevent frogs from suffering – by going vegan.”

Vietnam is one of the world’s leading exporters of frogs’ legs. One company reported that they typically prepare 2 tons of frogs’ legs every day.

This is PETA Asia’s second recent investigation into the frog-leg industry. The group first exposed Indonesian facilities for capturing frogs in their natural habitat and stuffing them into sealed bags, where they slowly suffocated as they tried to escape. Workers then cut off frogs’ heads and legs and skinned them, sometimes while they were still alive and conscious. No matter what countries companies buy frogs’ legs from, the animals will always suffer.

PETA – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.au and follow PETA on Facebook and Instagram.

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