Chanting “Stop the Torture Stop the Pain — Adidas Soccer is to Blame,” the NH Animal Rights League disrupted the Adidas store at the Merrimack Premium Outlets, calling on the company to stop selling shoes made from kangaroo skins.
Killing kangaroos and stealing their skin to make soccer shoes is not only inhumane, slaughtering these iconic animals violates the sportswear company’s own corporate policies.
Australia’s commercial kangaroo industry kills almost two million wild kangaroos each year. Commercial shooters are permitted to kill mother kangaroos even when the joeys are still in their pouch.
Joeys are left to die, bludgeoned to death, or decapitated (see “Guidelines for euthanasia of dependent young and wounded or injured kangaroos” in Australia’s National Code of Practice for the Humane Shooting of Kangaroos and Wallabies).
The protest was in support of the Kangaroos Are Not Shoes campaign by the Center for a Humane Economy. Since the launch of the campaign, Puma, Nike, and New Balance have all announced commitments to halt the sale of kangaroo-based shoes.
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