Kangaroos Are Not Shoes is a campaign with a single goal: secure a commitment from athletic shoe companies to rid their supply chains of kangaroo skins.
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2 million wild kangaroos slaughtered every year so Nike and adidas can make their soccer shoes!
Kangaroo Protection Act
For the first time in a generation, the Kangaroo Protection Act has been introduced in Congress to address the mass slaughter of kangaroos for athletic shoes and other garments.
Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-Calif) and Brian Fitzpatrick R-Penn) have introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act, a bill to ban the sale of kangaroo body parts in the United States. This measure aims to curb the massive trade in kangaroo skins used by adidas and other companies for manufacturing soccer shoes (“cleats”).
Tell your legislators to save the lives of millions of kangaroos a year
Our short film throws the curtain back on the mass slaughter of more kangaroos — more than 2 million a year!
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3-Time Olympic gold medalist Heather Mitts-Feeley
and other Olympic athletes called on Nike to stop producing shoes made from kangaroos — and it worked! Now moving on to adidas ...
A closer look at the moral fabric of athletic footwear
Read our white paper to see how plant-based fabrics, plastics, and other synthetic products have spurred a sharp reduction in the amount of leather in footwear in the last decade, particularly in athletic shoes.
Follow the journey from kangaroo to soccer shoe
Some of these images are graphic
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