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Fri, Oct 12 2012 at 11:19 AM

There are specific issues here relating to kangaroo leather - not least of all commercialising wildlife (which is bad news whatever way you spin it). Australia has an appalling record when it comes to treating its wild animals and pretty much leads the world when it comes to extinctions - including some species of kangaroos. Bottom line is that if a farmer wants an thousands animals he'll breed that many give or take. However kangaroos are truly wild animals, and are susceptible to disease, drought and over-hunting. In fact, population surveys are way down on a decade ago and are in no way stable. Bring the almighty dollar into the equation and you can see where things can go very wrong indeed. Kangaroos are hunted and shot at night in the vast outback away from the scrutiny of the public (with many being shot and mutilated but not killed outright). What makes this vile trade even worse are the hundreds of thousands of little victims, the baby and adolescent joeys (nearly a million a year). Pouch young will be pulled from their dying mother and smashed about the head or even decapitated and then simply discarded and not used by the leather industries. Many adolescents flee and will invariably suffer a slow and lingering death without the protection of their mother. The bottom line is that the kangaroo industry has said numerous times that the soccer cleat industry underpins the killing. Surely that alone should be reason to see an end to it. www.savethekangaroo.com

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