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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (101732)	4/25/2005 1:20:23 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have leather shoes and other leather items that I bought before I became a vegan. I intend to wear them out. Throwing them away at this point would not help the animal whose hides were used. Most vegans don't buy leather shoes, belts, jackets, etc. However, this is one of those questions that people who attack the whole philosophy use to attempt to ridicule vegans. At this time, cow hides are a byproduct of meat production. If you do not eat meat or eggs or dairy products, but do have a bit of leather kicking around your life, you are not participating in animal cruelty per se, because no cows are being killed just for their leather. However, I did hear at a vegetarian film screening recently that companies like Wilson's House of Leather and other top manufacturers of luxury leather products obtain their hides from cows that are fed such a toxic array of things to produce that kind of leather that the meat cannot be used. So that is a different situation, as is using exotic leathers from animals killed just for them. As the percentage of vegans and vegetarians increases, and as the availability of non-leather alternatives do as well, I expect there will be changes in this direction. Last year Newsweek did an article on how cool vegan fashion is, so it is starting to drift into the mainstream, at least in cities. Here is the article: msnbc.msn.com Would anyone like to purchase some animal-cruelty-free items? This is a fun company: mooshoes.com