There are a lot of times I feel like just…flipping the vegan script.
It’s not ‘polyester’ it’s plastic
It’s not ‘vegan leather’ it’s plastic
Its not ‘faux fur’ it’s plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
and that is without even mentioning how:
• using the hide of a (bred for meat) carcass is less wasteful
• sheep need to be sheared or they are at risk of a long and distressing death due to heatstroke
veganism, carried out properly, is a long-form philosophy. if you listen to the loudest, dumbest and trendiest vegans (which most people do purposely because they enjoy mocking them) then yes, you’ll run into people who can’t contextualize animal rights progress with the reality of the system we live in
however, it’s nonsense to suggest that the issue of sustainability alone can permanently answer a moral question involving living organisms, and it’s also nonsense to point out that using hides from meat animals is “efficient” without touching on the fact that the meat industry itself is inefficient and unsustainable
there’s also a magnificent irony to the fact that this post is an eyeroll at vegans for being bandwagoning moral police, yet you’re doing the exact same thing with the current version, which is plastic hysteria
i am an ex-vegan who quit because i didn’t find it practical and am now vegetarian, but i still have a huge respect for anyone willing to be a leader on these issues. “blah blah blah plastics” doesn’t overwrite the fact that animals are alive, think, and feel
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