Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and director Joaquin Phoenix appears in a new PETA video about China's dog leather trade, narrating over footage that was captured by a PETA Asia investigator at a facility that 'bludgeons and skins 100 to 200 dogs a day'.

Phoenix commented 'If you buy leather gloves, belts or shoes, remember there's no easy way to tell whose skin you're really in. If you love dogs like I do, then please never buy or wear leather, whether it comes from a dog, a cow or any other animal'.