On the Eve of the First Semi-Final Match, World Cup Players Scoring Shows Players with Kangaroo-Based Shoes Have Almost No Impact Washington, D.C. – In a preliminary assessment of scoring from all matches played in the 2022 World Cup in the run-up to the semi-finals, players wearing shoes made from human-made fabrics dominated the scoring, with 150 goals. … Read more
Kangaroos Are Not Shoes
Press Release Center for a Humane Economy Analysis: Scorers Do Their Fancy Footwork With Shoes Not Made from Kangaroos — by a Large Margin Washington, D.C.– If you want to do well at the World Cup, you should wear synthetic shoes and leave the kangaroo skin on the kangaroos. That’s the take-away from an analysis … Read more
Press Release Groups Demand Soccer Shop USA Cease Illegal Sales of Kangaroo-based Soccer Cleats Los Angeles – The Center for a Humane Economy and Animal Wellness Action filed a second lawsuit today to compel compliance with California law barring the sale of kangaroo parts – this one against a second California-based sportwear retailer, alleging that the company … Read more
Press Release Groups Demand Retailer Soccer Wearhouse Comply with the Law Riverside, Calif. — Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy filed a lawsuit today against Soccer Wearhouse, a California-based sportwear and equipment retailer that maintains outlets in Corona, Temecula and Anaheim, alleging that the company is illegally selling kangaroo-sourced soccer cleats … Read more
In 2019 and 2020, wildfires ignited large swaths of the Australian countryside. The conflagrations were devastating to humans, with significant loss of life and home. But the horrors for animals were even worse: a broad range of unique and iconic animals suffered, including dingoes, emus, platypuses, wombats, possums, long-footed potoroos, silver-headed antechinus, regent honeyeaters, and … Read more
The Business of Animal Welfare Kangaroos Are Not Shoes Campaign Nike is helping to drive the biggest slaughter of wildlife on the planet If you listened to Nike, and read their corporate propaganda you might think they are an ethical company focused on producing sustainable, cruelty-free products. We wish this were true. The fact is Nike, … Read more
Australian Nike stores draw crowds of angry protesters demanding the end to the cruel, unsustainable commercial slaughter of wild kangaroos Sydney – Australians took to the streets over the weekend in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane to send a message direct to Nike, protesting at their flagship stores and demanding the athletic wear behemoth end its … Read more
Every year, kangaroos die in vast numbers because of Nike. That’s the inescapable conclusion of an investigation by the Center for a Humane Economy (“the Center”) into the soccer cleat trade. And it’s the precise reason last year the Center announced its “Kangaroos Are Not Shoes” (KANS) campaign. Nike still doesn’t appreciate why killing two … Read more
Nike drives the killing of kangaroos in the Australian Outback to make soccer cleats. But why? At the European Football (soccer) Championships that the Italy won a week ago, kangaroo skin shoes tightly swathed the feet of a substantial number of the world’s most elite players. But from our analysis, conducted with a partner groups … Read more
Leaders of New Jersey Senate introduce legislation to ban sale of kangaroo parts, while animal welfare groups in EU promote parallel legislation to federal Kangaroo Protection Act Washington, D.C. – Nike has not made any public declarations about its use of kangaroo skins in some athletic shoe models, despite mounting pressure on the company to … Read more