They Can Have My Copas When They Pry Them Off Of My Cold Dead Feet

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State Supreme Court nixes sales of shoes made with kangaroo hide – SF Chronicle (7/23/07):

Sportswear giant Adidas cannot sell popular soccer shoes fashioned from kangaroo hide in California despite the company’s contention that federal law preempts a state ban on products made from the marsupials, the Supreme Court of California ruled today in a unanimous decision.

The ruling could have a major impact on the state’s soccer retailers and players. Australian kangaroo skin, beloved by many players for its softness, has long been used in a variety of higher-priced shoes made by a number of brands — including Adidas’ famous Copa Mundial cleats.

Killing cows for shoes: A-OK. Killing kangaroos: illegal. Don’t tell anyone about the four pair of K-leather adidas in my closet.

Comments

  1. sac says:
    July 23, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    It’s the cows’ fault for not being cuter.

  2. eponymagain says:
    July 24, 2007 at 10:24 am

    While cows rather convincingly appear to be animals, they are, in fact, carefully designed facsimiles.

  3. matt says:
    July 24, 2007 at 10:39 am

    carefully designed facsimiles

    of what?

  4. sarabeth says:
    July 24, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    those who know are sworn to secrecy. hence the ritual mid-western practice of cow-tipping.

  5. eponymagain says:
    July 24, 2007 at 12:58 pm

    Of the Platonic ideal of a cow. As opposed to a kangaroo, which is the animal itself.
    And yet, even those of us who are entirely devoid of soul or intelligence, genetically disfigured over generations of industrial production, still feel pain. Which seems like a reasonable threshold for extending humane treatment. Even to things, such as cows that aren’t really animals.

  6. matt says:
    July 24, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    “even broccoli screams when you rip it out of the ground” – ari gold

  7. jamiebeth says:
    July 24, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    um, i am moving to california TOMORROW and apparently there is a lot i still need to learn about my new home… what interest does CA have in marsupials? as opposed to say cows, chickens, pigs?