Hollywood producers are releasing a short film urging Nike to ditch kangaroo leather.
Gavin Polone – producer of Gilmore Girls – and Emmy-winning sports editor Derek Ambrosi have partnered to create the film’.
Using reverse sequencing, the film begins with a football player’s boot kicking a ball into a goal. Then, it chronologically looks back through the retail supply chain and manufacturing process, to the Australian wildlands where kangaroos are shot and stripped of their skin.
‘Well-intentioned consumers’
Polone said: “I wanted to expose the bloody truth that’s being hidden from well-intentioned consumers who may have no idea how their ‘K-leather’ shoes are being made.
“Nike can no longer hide their responsibility for this atrocity.”
‘They urgently need help’
Moreover, the film will air on three continents and has already garnered political support.
Australian politician Mark Pearson adds: “It’s fantastic to see Hollywood heavyweights getting behind the plight of the kangaroo because they urgently need help.
“A lot of people don’t even know that kangaroo populations are declining, let alone that Australia kills its own national emblem for profit.
He also described the short film as an ‘eye-opener for people all across the world’.
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Urge Nike to ditch kangaroo leather
Moreover, a petition calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrisson to ban kangaroo leather has already attracted thousands of signatures.
It states: “Kangaroos are one of Australia’s most iconic, loved and unique animals. They are also the victims of the largest commercial slaughter of land-based wildlife on the planet.”
“The World wept for our wildlife after the 2019 Black Summer bushfires. And yet, here in Australia, it was business as usual for the commercial kangaroo industry. “
The petition also says: “State and Federal Governments saw no problem with the continued slaughter of kangaroos. Some states – including NSW – increased their commercial slaughter quotas.
You can sign the petition urging Nike to ditch kangaroo leather here
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Tell Nike to watch this movie – Kangaroo – A Love Hate Story – 2018 Documentary. It’s horrific what we do to our National Icon. Such beautiful innocent creatures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oaeaqndd7g
And another movie that might help to inspire Nike to stop killing kangaroos Please. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5_WyqarI1I
Every LIFE matters. Every one of their life is PRECIOUS to that individual. No matter how small, or Big or 2 legged, 4 or 6 legged, it’s IRRELEVANT. LIFE IS A GOD GIVEN GIFT TO EVERY ONE WHO BREATH & LIVE. Please don’t condemn the Kangaroos just because they are in Plenty or they make destructions in forests or what it may be.
“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants Happiness & no fear or pains, just as one wants to live & not die, SO DO OTHER CREATURES” — His Holiness the Dalai Lama-