Japanese football boot creators jump from the skin of kangaroo

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Asics and Mizuno, the latest great routes of the sports equipment industry, Pelé, Diego Maradona and David Beckham will stop using Kangaroo skin because of a material lover.

Decisions made by the two largest sports shoe manufacturers of Japan promote ten years of light control, measurement, strength and exceptional ball control, animal oppression of animals.

Other manufacturers, including Nike, Puma and Diadora, have already left out the material. Adidas, in May, the new kangaroo stopped leaving the new kangaroo and said he finished production this year.

Japanese companies are more protected. But Asics The company told the Financial Times that the company plans to complete Kangaroo leather products by the end of 2025.

The company said that pushers are not under pressure from animal rights groups, but the “higher performance” products.

Again, Asics, Kangaroo skin boots, to celebrate the market, “Kangaroo skin boots” continue to mark the market: “If you feel the ball on your feet, it is not better than the skin and especially kangaroo football.”

Mizuno told FT that the company plans to phase Kangaroo skin without providing a table.

The company said, “Some opposition” received the use of Australian skin and “some opposition” and “various values, including ecological friendship, as well as” will receive some opposition. “

Kangaroos are commercially and also hunted by farmers and recreation shooters Australia. About 1.5 mn Macropods – Kangaroos, WallAhos and Wallabies, which also includes 1,000 million dollars in research last year, including Kanguroos and Wallabies, and consists of 3,000 people.

Kangaroo meat and skins, even the scrotums are sold even in airports and tourism shops.

Animal rights groups have long calls on the injuries of the injured animals and hunters in the bag, which are still injured in the bag.

The trade authority claimed that the commercial industry was adjusted and global sports brands flash a skin more environmentally friendly than synthetic materials.

Neal Finch, a biologist and executive in the Council, said he was moving Shoe industry Given that the skin is a larger meat and pet food industry, it will not affect the number of kangaroos every year.

“They devalued the world’s best skin in Australia’s local skin and replaced it with plastic.”

Mike Redwood, which is a retired leather in the UK, has become back after learning about how to use the world’s career early, in his career due to the worries of the environment and how the industry is managed.

“What happened in Australia is necessary and generally well thought out; it is suitable in such a situation to use skin and use meat.”