Saltwater crocodiles and other crocodilians are farmed for luxury leather goods, with significant welfare concerns throughout the production cycle.
Farmed crocodilians live in concrete pens that deny them all natural behaviors including swimming, basking, and social interaction. Crocodilians are far more cognitively complex than commonly assumed, with evidence of social play and protective maternal behavior. Their killing by neck-spiking is contested as a humane method. The connection between luxury goods and hidden animal suffering represents a serious ethical problem that consumers often don't see.