Crocodiles are cut open alive so their skin can be used for $40,000 Birkin handbags and luxury $2,000 watch straps, a horrifying undercover investigation has revealed. In a video taken from a hidden camera, animal charity PETA has exposed how the reptiles are put through unimaginable suffering at a leather farm in Texas before they are brutally killed for fashion industry giant Hermes. The animals at the Lone Star Alligator Farm in Winnie are forced to live in dirty, dark pits before they are dragged out by workers and placed on a table, struggling desperately to escape, and killed. Their skin is then made into the handbags and watchstraps, which are known for having price tags in the thousands of dollars and are worn by a host of celebrities including Gwyneth Paltrow, Victoria Beckham and Ashton Kutcher.