Many shoes contain leather or wool or something. Vegan isn’t just about food
I know right, I’m surprised there are so many people here who don’t appear to get that. If I look at the image I assume the seller of this pair of shoes just slapped a buzzword on but vegan shoes and clothing are a thing and since when is everything that is not vegan carnivorous? Cheese and honey are also neither, right.
Jokes like this aren’t to imply that there are only two options. It also implies the existence of pescatarian shoes for example. The joke is that you apply other related terms to the situation, usually the most absurd of them. In this case carnivorous was probably chosen for the implication that the shoes themselves are carnivorous and would eat you if you wore them.
It depends. For example I just made one quick search, “biodegradable vegan shoes”, and this was one of the first results:
Also see here, leather at least as bad environmentally, in addition to being ethically awful.
But they aren’t, vegan shoes would be made of polyester/nylon/other plastics.
Vegans avoid animal products outside food too?
Depending on the reason for being vegan.
For animal rights/ethics, yes.
For health/climate, potentially less so.
Genuine question: Is avoiding leather really that great? Leather seems much more durable than plastic, and its from a part of the animal thats really just thrown away anyway.
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making the leather is a horrible process, making skin into the product you know requires a lot of chemicals that aren’t great for the environment
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Leather is not necessarily a byproduct but a coproduct.
“Vegan” originally meant “vegetarian + no non-food animal products”, which later got distorted into “vegetarian”, then thanks to crooks promoting the “carnivore” diet, “person that actually eats their veggies”. No really, the last one started to spread from gymbro forums after one of them said “um, ackchually, fiber is carbs too”.
Vegan aka Synthetics. It’s just a fuckin buzzword.
Now if it was Oil and Animal free It would kinda cool.
I have shoes that is printed from algae, they are vegan and synthetic free
Which company? I’m interested in seeing what they got because that’s pretty sick, i doubt they are sketchers though 😂
That would be kind of wild! I wonder if it’s possible with that mango leather I’ve heard about.
No, vegan aka not made with shitty glue made of animal bones. It is not just a buzzword.
This pair of shoes was made by happy vegan child labor instead of sad carnivore child labor.
I am pretty sure that called leather
