Snopes readers asked our newsroom to look into online posts, like the one below, that suggest Adidas is the only major athletic shoe company at the time of this publication to use kangaroo leather ...

Animal rights campaigners are claiming victory after Adidas announced it was no longer using leather harvested from wild Australian kangaroos. Pressure had been mounting on the German-based sporting ...

In the past 20 years, 90 million kangaroos and wallabies in Australia have been killed for commercial purposes, according to ...

Adidas, along with other prominent athletic brands, has faced criticism for using certain controversial materials in its products.

Adidas has halted the use of kangaroo leather on its sneakers. The decision was confirmed by the global sportswear giant's CEO, Bjørn Gulden, at Adidas' 2025 Annual General Meeting in Germany today.

Adidas has stopped its use of kangaroo skin, according to a Thursday press release from the Center for a Humane Economy. The athleticwear company stopped buying kangaroo leather in 2024 and will ...

Asked if Adidas also planned to phase out kangaroo leather, spokesperson Stefan Pursche said it “plays a minor role and is significantly below 1 percent because we’ve been able to substitute ...

My fellow shopper was genuinely concerned to hear that the commercial kangaroo industry sanctions ... kangaroos that won’t be made into shoes. Adidas remains strangely silent this spring ...

briefly dropped Adidas in 2006 over the use of kangaroo leather. Even so, kangaroo industry proponents defend the practice. "Kangaroo skins have been used for millennia; the Aboriginals used them ...

David Beckham made Adidas’s kangaroo leather Predator cleats famous at the 2002 World Cup. The leather is still used to make top-tier cleats. Photograph by Ricardo Mazalan, AP In 2006 Beckham ...

Adidas has ended the use of kangaroo leather on its shoes. Via Center for a Humane Economy Adidas has halted the use of kangaroo leather on its sneakers. The decision was confirmed by the global ...