Comments on: Hermes Breeds own Crocs to Meet Bag Demand

By: ronald garwe

ronald garwe — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:18:43 +0000

a product from Hermes is a luxury investment albeit for the rich. The poor are in on the act by rearing these crocs. The only part of the croc thrown away is the head. All the meat is eaten and the tail is a delicacy in Europe, Asia, Australasia and Southern Africa. Whilst my friends are farming cattle, i have decided to farm crocs – and yes I enjoy croc tail. If you are not a vegeterian, don’t dice croc farming.

By: 1MarrondeOsuna

1MarrondeOsuna — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:00:07 +0000

Hermes … What a Crock!

Btw: Who is Hermes’ croc killer(s)? How does Hermes kill its crocs?

Yes, Hermes makes the best items by far, but resorting to a Hermes croc farm is taking it too far.

If anyone spends 20-40K on a croc bag, they deserve to be sent to Hades … stuffed in their croc bag. That’s just ridiculous! THINK ABOUT IT!

It’s almost laughable … the world economy is in a slump, but not Hermes, they require owning a crock farm to keep up with the demand.

May the fools that purchase such items, lose their wealth and be left w/their croc bag to remind them of their ignorance.

By: Mieko

Mieko — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:22:52 +0000

I really like the comments made by tm, Stephanie, and Laura. Especially on tm’s comment. So piggy-backing on tm, we need to see the bigger picture here. The plastic bags and other plastics involved in other products we used are waaay more harmful than these croc bags or any other exotic products (i.e. fur)!

For me, as long as Hermes (or any other clothing/accessories brands, for that matter) don’t use any skins or any body parts of endangered species I am not bothered at all.

And by the by, those bags are soo pretty, and a proper result of high quality craftsmanship. And remember, Hermes’ bags are not throwaway bags like LV’s, Dior’s, Gucci’s, or Balenciaga’s. Hermes’ bags are like Chanel’s suits. Once bought, kept forever.

Personally, never really the one for reptile skin accessories. I’m an ostrich gal!

And here’s the thing. If you don’t like what Hermes is doing, then don’t buy any Hermes’ products or their croc bags, at least. And DON’T bother others who buy those bags. Just live and let live man! Live and let live. (well, not to those crocodiles in Hermes farm at least)

By: Lamar

Lamar — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:05:51 +0000

Finally, someone who makes some sense. You can’t compare what Hermes is doing to raising cattle AT ALL, cows are NOT killed for their skins, cows are killed for their meat and leather is a bi-product of this. . .

I do agree that it’s sad/wrong to be raising and eventually killing these animals strictly for their hides, if this is indeed the case.

By: hermes1

hermes1 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:16:36 +0000

apart from having the necessary money to buy such a bag, do you think breeding animals only to kill them for making bags is correct? Nobody eats crocodiles, at least not at industrial level!
Easy to forget behind the bag was a LIVING CREATURE

By: fact

fact — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:14:50 +0000

in australia crocodiles are hunted and killed most of the time anyway cause they tend to eat people like every month so who cares?
theyre disgusting anyway…creepy…
its no different to farming cows anyway…cows get skinned meat gets sold just like with crocodiles.
just because purseblog decides to write an article feel free to comment on what is written but dont go off at the industry unless you have all the facts. if you dont like crocodile leather then you probably wont like calfskin leather as well.

By: mathilde

mathilde — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:36:52 +0000

It’s revolting.

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:30:03 +0000

These bags are more harmful than just the fact that they require crocodiles to be killed solely for their skins. The leather for these bags was chrome tanned (as is 90% of the world’s leather). Tanning is the process that turns raw animal skins into durable, lasting leather via tannins. Chrome tanning utilizes chromium sulfate and other salts of chromium, i.e. heavy metals, to tan leather and is terrible for the environment. So these bags are not only killing crocodiles solely for decoration but they’re poisoning the environment in their creation as well. This is very sad, because these bags are undeniably beautiful.

If you care about these issues, but love leather bags, I recommend looking for bags that specifically use “vegetable tanned” cow leather. As far as I know, cows are never killed solely for their skins (that would make leather MUCH more expensive, as cows can’t be cheap to raise) and vegetable tanning uses the tannins from vegetable matter, like tree bark, wood chips, berries, etc. to tan the leather. This process takes much longer and is more expensive than chrome tanning, but is definitely better for the environment.

Unfortunately, there aren’t many beautiful vegetable tanned bags on the market today, as far as I’ve seen, but I think that’s just because people aren’t well enough informed.

By: Crocodylus

Crocodylus — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:53:35 +0000

Hypocrite hypocrite..
There is no difference if you are black or white, and so..there is no difference if you are cows, chicken, monkeys or if you are a or 3 crocodiles, right? if you can afford to enjoy Ruth Chris or Mastros steak then be it, mostly others will say “lucky you”, right?. Why it is different with others who can afford crocodile purses? Why don’t we all be vegetarians!! so the animals will be over populated and out of control and they are to come to eat us instead of we are in control over the animals. Breading crocs and kill them for their leather and meet is the right things to do.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:26:18 +0000

Really i don’t get what the BIG deal is!!!…there’s more to talk about and more to life than saying slaying slayers is cruel!!!…..or don’t u guys know that only a small part of the crocodile skin is used for leather…dont u guys know the reason why it is so expensive??!…..jackets could even use up to 8 crocs……but these things don’t have souls…humans die every day and we are not yet extinct and these crocs are in farms and are not haunted down in the wild.even if dey are just 1 or 2..which would be used for breeding purposes…besides…d crocodile population is still substantial…..If a CROC….should c any of u at this moment…it will KILL you and waste your human parts…it doesn’t eat everything!!!! and the truth is that most of you guys can’t afford it, if not all………so instead of getting angry about it…just let the users including myself enjoy them…and feel good about them. i didn’t pay 46000 for nothing! so people just chill out