Does anyone know what "Animal-friendly leather" is?
I mean, is it just fake leather, and if so, why not call it "faux-leather" or some other such term? Was this stuff alive once, keeping some large plains-dwelling creature warm on chilly fall nights? Does it contain DNA that can be sequenced? Is it made from a plant? Oil? Or as Dennis says "Peat and rendered dinosaur sinew"?
This is bugging me, I want to know.
I have seen and even eaten Fruit Leather, but in that case they tell you it's fruit, right up front. So, not very fruit-friendly, but animals are happy with it.
"Animal-friendly" could mean there is no animal in it, thus being an indirect friend to the animal who would otherwise be scalped to get it.
Or it could mean they kill the aforementioned plains-dweller rapidly and painlessly, the friendliness here being the mercy shown.
Perhaps I should go buy something made from this "stuff" and inspect it. Do they make baseball mitts from it now? When I played, the mitts were most definitely not animal friendly. I imagine they carved the mitt-shape right onto the back of the living cow. But they do things differently nowadays.
Oh well...I have to go eat my not-so plant-friendly salad now...
2 comments:
Dave,
You piqued my curiosity, myself being mostly vegetarian but a lover of leather shoes and bags (that, ice cream, and a good white Irish Cheddar are what keep me from veganism). I did a little searching and this is what I came up with:
http://www.chicbynature.com/what-is-vegan-leather-anyway/
Of course, just the name "Animal Friendly Leather" really means nothing, since if it's leather, it's not animal-friendly, and if it's animal-friendly, it's not leather.
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Alisa
I think "animal-friendly" is a marketing term for the unglamorous word "pleather". They can increase sales if they give you a purpose to buy cheap stuff; adds to the sales to cheap people.....like me :) So when we're out at the next EXPOSURE DETROIT event and I'm wearing my pleather jacket and you ask me why I wore that cheap looking thing........I'll just say, "it's animal-friendly. Next thing you know, it'll be a trend.
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