Here’s Why PETA Supporters Keep Crashing David Jones’ Stores
PETA supporters crashed the grand reopening of David Jones in Westfield Burwood. With signs reading “David Jones: Drop Wild-Animal Skins”, the disruptive action was designed to remind those celebrating that despite several closed-door meetings with PETA, David Jones still hasn’t created a policy to ban wild-animal skins.
David Jones can’t feign ignorance – we’ve shown company officials horrific investigation footage that proves how wild animals suffer for accessories made from their skin and were told that the brand’s animal welfare policy prohibits the use of wild-animal skins in its private-label items – but it is still profiting from this abuse.
Several PETA exposés reveal the suffering of wild animals in the skins trade. An investigation in Thailand documented that a crocodile continued to kick their legs and move for at least 23 minutes after a worker violently thrust a metal blade into the animals’ neck to sever their spinal cord. Another revealed slaughterhouse workers in Indonesia bludgeoning pythons while the animals were fully conscious, pumping them full of water without pain relief, and skinning them while they were likely still alive. PETA US investigators caught workers at ostrich abattoirs striking birds in the head before shoving them into stun boxes and slitting their throats.
More than 10,000 e-mails from concerned Australians have already called on the company to stop allowing third parties like Gucci and Louis Vuitton to sell wild-animal skins at its stores. And previous PETA protests targeting David Jones include a window takeover in Sydney and a bloody display with controversial activist Tash Peterson in Perth. Please add your support too by sending a message to the retailer now:
Let’s make 2025 a historic year for animals
