The purse in question is a $3,820 brown Chloe Paraty bag."No matter how much Reese paid for that bag, the animals paid a much higher price," a PETA spokeswoman has been quoted by the media.Reese Witherspoon is the latest celebrity to cop flack from animal rights organisation, PETA.
She's been accused of contributing to the 'suffering' of snakes that are skinned alive to make bags, after being snapped clutching a python skin purse in L.A.

According to a PETA spokeswoman: "Every year, milions of snakes are impaled on hooks or nailed to trees by their heads and skinned alive.

"Hoses are inserted into the mouths of large snakes — like pythons — and their bodies are pumped full of water to loosen their skin so that it will cut away more easily.

"The animas' peeled, writhing bodies are then discarded, and it often takes days for the animals to die from the effects of shock and dehydration."

The spokeswoman said Reese's $4000 Chloe Paraty bag (yes, bags have first and last name's now) is a "frivolous…fashion accessory that could easily be replicated with no bloodshed."

Strangely enough, Reese has previously been voted the world's sexiest vegetarian by PETA.

Now all she'll be getting from them is an undercover video about the cruelty behind the exotic skins industry.

source: ninemsn