NYFW PETA protest against Adidas leather line. Image Credit - PETA

New York Fashion Week Events Crashed By ‘Ostrich’ To Call Attention To Animals Used For Adidas’ New Leather Line

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New York Fashion Week Events Crashed By ‘Ostrich’ To Call Attention To Animals Used For Adidas New Leather Line

Editor’s note: Staten Islander has covered the NY Fashion Week events carried out by PETA in recent years.  This includes last year’s event featuring Stella McCartney, the protests at Michael Kors and Coach events, along with their Black Friday event titled Free the Animals Friday.  There are two NY Fashion Weeks, one in February and the other in September. 

NYFW PETA protest against Adidas leather line. Image Credit - PETA

NYFW PETA protest against Adidas leather line. Image Credit – PETA

 

Led by a life-size “ostrich,” a group of PETA supporters gathered outside Adidas’s New York Fashion Week event  to ask the brand not to take a step backward with its new A-TYPE collection, which reworks classic nylon and cotton styles into leather versions made from the sliced-off skins of tormented ostriches and other animals.
“No ostrich should be shocked, violently slaughtered, and skinned for the sake of a shoe,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA is calling on Adidas to step away from leather and stick to the wonderful cruelty-free vegan materials it already offers.”
In nature, ostriches stay with their parents for up to 3 years. In the fashion industry, workers forcibly restrain ostriches as young as 1 year old, electrically stun them, and slit their throats in full view of their terrified flock mates. The leather industry also contributes to the climate catastrophe, land devastation, deforestation, pollution, water contamination, and biodiversity loss.
Sustainable vegan leather made from apples, cork, corn, grapes, mushrooms, paper, pineapples, soy, or tea mimics the properties of leather without the cruelty to animals or environmental devastation.
NYFW PETA protest against Adidas leather line. Image Credit - PETA

NYFW PETA protest against Adidas leather line. Image Credit – PETA

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is the largest animal rights organization in the world, and PETA entities have more than 9 million members and supporters globally. PETA opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: in laboratories, in the food industry, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment business. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds, and other animals who are often considered “pests” as well as cruelty to domesticated animals. PETA works through public education, investigative newsgathering and reporting, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.

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