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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
Red Joey and mum
Night hunt
Kangaroo caught in hunter's spotlight
Dead mother and joey
Shooter at hunt site
Butchering at hunt site
Butchered joey at hunt site
Kangaroos on shooters truck
Truck backed up to chiller
Hanging kangaroos in chiller
Kangaroo carcasses ready for processing
De-boning room
Removal of fat from kangaroo skin
De-fleshing machine
Wet chrome-tanned kangaroo skins
Vacuum drying of kangaroo skin
Nike shoe manufacturing plant
Sewing shoes
adidas shoe production
Boxing shoes
Nike Tiempo Legend model of soccer shoes made from kangaroo leather
The last kick
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