We fight to tackle large-scale, industrialized mistreatment of animals, while also working to close out smaller-scale animal-exploitation enterprises that have lost any meaningful social acceptance. When you invest in a private company and buy its stock, you expect a return on your investment. You should expect the same from a non-profit. As we approach year … Read more
Kangaroos Are Not Shoes
Press Release Footwear Giant Called Out for Cruelly Killing Native Wildlife (Sydney, Australia)— Animal activists throughout the world joined forces over the weekend, disrupting Adidas stores and alerting customers to the corporation’s involvement in the largest mass slaughter of terrestrial wildlife in the world — on kangaroos. Led by the Animal Justice Party and as … Read more
Press Release Center for a Humane Economy helping lead U.S. actions because Adidas is an outlier in still sourcing kangaroo parts for soccer cleats Sydney, Australia — Animal advocates, including the Center for a Humane Economy, are taking to the streets in a global day of protest against Adidas over its financing of the largest … Read more
Germany-based sportwear company can help turn things around by joining competitors in abandoning wildlife slaughter for its products. (Washington, D.C.) – The Center for a Humane Economy called on Adidas—the only remaining athletic shoe seller among the top five global brands to source wildlife skins for soccer cleats—to select an advocate of wildlife protection for … Read more
When U.S.-based New Balance informed the Center for a Humane Economy (the Center) days ago that it will phase out kangaroo skins in its supply chain, it was one more big moment in our efforts to protect Australia’s iconic mammals. Since the launch of our Kangaroos Are Not Shoes campaign in 2020, four of the … Read more
Boston-based athletic wear brand announces pledges to drop kangaroo-based shoes six months after Portland-based Nike says it will move away from the use of wildlife skins to make soccer cleats. Washington, D.C. — The athletic wear giant New Balance informed the Center for a Humane Economy yesterday that it has altered its sourcing policies and … Read more
Famed Actor and Star of Babe and Succession says German athletic-wear manufacturer should turn to non-animal materials for the shoes or face boycott New York City, NY — Actor James Cromwell staged a protest inside of an Adidas store in Manhattan, calling on the company to stop killing kangaroos to make soccer cleats and to replace kangaroo skins with cruelty-free materials. … Read more
Dick’s is still peddling athletic shoes from Adidas, Mizuno and others sourcing skins from kangaroos—even after Nike and Puma announced in 2023 they’d stop the practice. PITTSBURPittsburgh, PAGH — The Center for a Humane Economy is telling Dick’s Sporting Goods to end its role as America’s biggest retailer of kangaroo-based shoes. The animal-welfare group and … Read more
Nike and Puma Made Public Pronouncements in March That They’d Halt Use of Kangaroo Skins in Their Supply Chains by the End of the Year Washington, D.C. — Leading a bipartisan group of three Republicans and three Democrats as sponsors, U.S. Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Penn., and Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act, H.R. … Read more
Animal-welfare group files notices of intent to sue, demands Adidas get out of the ugly business of sourcing kangaroo skins for its soccer cleats Los Angeles, CA. — The Center for a Humane Economy (the Center) announced results of a statewide investigation revealing that retailers in California continue to sell soccer cleats from Adidas despite … Read more