Quote Originally Posted by MisterKyte View Post
Although I don't agree with anything that PETA does or says, the harvest and culling of snakes for their skins is probably just as brutal as they make it out to be, take a look at this video. Comparing people dispatching and skinning animals in the field to a dissection you've done is kind of a foolish mentality because those are two very different situations with two very different goals.
I have no doubt it's a brutal process, I just don't trust PETA.
They made the same 'cut up while still alive' claim about beef cattle in slaughterhouses. (When, if they actually observed a slaughterhouse, they'd find that it is extremely humane.) They made farmers out to be freaks who like to mutilate live animals, and they tend to categorize everyone who isn't a total vegan as some sort of complete monster. I've reached the point where I assume everything they say is either a complete lie, an uninformed statement or extremely exaggerated.

I was also commenting on how it would be difficult to remove skin from a wriggling, moving animal that could just as easily bite you if you need to get the skin off intact.