Ask Adidas to stop using Kangaroo leather for their shoes!

  • by: Bea Brinkley
  • recipient: Adidas, sports wear, CEO Herbert Heiner,  Herzogenaurach, Germany

Those are the 4, only four people,  Adidas CEO Herbert Heiner, Glenn Bennett, Robin J. Stalker and  Erich Stamminger, that are responsible for 70% of the cruelest wildlife massacre in the world!!! They don't kill them themselves, they just buy the hydes, 70% of the killed  Kangaroos. Without Adidas, there would be no market!! Not worth while. So urge Adidas to give up Kangaroos and thus keep this cruel trade alive.

Take a protected species under the protection of the Department of the Environment, call it a resource, increase the killing, and you have the largest wildlife slaughter in the world today.

Government sanctioned crueltyThe Code of Practice says joeys can be ripped from their slain mother's pouch and hit on the head with a water pipe or iron bar until dead; shooters even bash joeys against their vehicle or a tree trunk.
Older, ex-pouch, but still dependent joeys flee in terror when their mothers are killed to die from cold, starvation, predation and maternal depravation. A million or more joeys die in this way every year.

No Shooter will ever allow himself to be filmed killing joeys.

The Code of Practice is not linked to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and is legally unenforcable.

Contrary to public perception, the RSPCA does NOT monitor or police cruelty to commercially killed kangaroos.
The nature and method of slaughter cannot be ignored. It is barbaric and inhumane. Each night thousands of animals are butchered, many are maimed, the young in pouch are cruelly dispatched and the young at foot are left to fend for themselves. Any reasonable person would not wish to be a party to this slaughter by purchasing kangaroo products.
Former Senator George Georges (Queensland) heard evidence about kangaroo killing for three and a half years as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Animal Welfare from December 9th, 1983 to June 5th, 1987. (Preface of "The Kangaroo BETRAYED!).

"The cruelty and suffering that we have already seen in the native animal industries means that this is no longer an experiment. Hundreds of thousands of kangaroos each year are not killed humanely, emu chicks in Western Australia are "de-toed" without anaesthesia to reduce risks to handlers, and possums in Tasmania are trapped, transported and killed over a period that now has blown out to anything up to 48 hours. The trade in wildlife is a trade based on profit, without any place for compassion." (Foreword of 'The Kangaroo BETRAYED!' Professor Peter Singer)


Kangaroos are shot in the Australian outback by spotlighting at night. One million joeys die alone. Three aspects cause great cruelty:

Because head shots are attempted, these may not strike the brain but injure the head including the mouth. These kangaroos escape into the scrub outside the spotlight's beam and will die over several days from their horrific injuries and starvation.

In-pouch joeys are killed by stomping on them or bashing them with a stick or against a vehicle. Several blows may be necessary.

Ex-pouch joeys are still reliant on their mother's milk for protein, warmth in the cold winter's nights, protection from predators, and they are dependent on their mothers for psychic support. They spend time in and out of the pouch and when their mothers are killed, they are left to fend for themselves.

Dear Mr Heiner, on account of all those signatures and the cruelty to Kangaroos, will you now stop buying Kangaroo leather? We hope you have the heart to see how wrong it is to use Kangaroos for your shoes. This petition is going all around the world.
If I was you, I would be thinking real hard if it is worth the trouble and the money you are making, please see all there is about the cruel killing of our Kangaroos.
I do hope you have a concience and a heart for those victims of your profit search.

Sincerely

Bea Brinkley

PS This petition is only the start, watch your profit margin going down!
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