How can "vegan leather" be plastic (based on oil) which is dead shellfish?

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missedmyappointment · 27/07/2024 20:13

I don't understand how something made of dead shellfish can be called vegan. So how can vegan leather be plastic? ( question arising from other thread I don't want to derail)

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ThursdayTomorrow · 28/07/2024 18:47

Every time a vegetable is pulled up millions of microorganisms are killed. Nothing is harm free really.

Flopsythebunny · 28/07/2024 19:00

Haveanaiceday · 28/07/2024 08:44

I'm not a vegan, but some of the treatment of farm animals is certainly what we would consider inhumane treatment of prisoners if it was applied to humans. What about the life of a battery hen or pig who live in a tiny cage and are never let out?

It's very variable in farming, some animals live a good life in nice surroundings and the farmers genuinely care about looking after them well. I'm not against eating meat myself as long as the animals are well treated, but in some cases I think the vegans have a point.

Don't come up with ridiculous reasons why vegans are hypocritical, instead question whether you genuinely feel using animal products is ethical. If you can say yes to that then you don't need to prove vegans are wrong with some spurious argument about fossilised plankton.

Battery farming is banned in the uk isn't it?

BeanieBabee · 28/07/2024 19:21

ThursdayTomorrow · 28/07/2024 18:47

Every time a vegetable is pulled up millions of microorganisms are killed. Nothing is harm free really.

And this is where we get into absurdity.

So grand should just end their own life basically? Or not get vaccines, or not wash their hands. Eat raw meat to help salmonella survive?

No, of course not. Nothing is 100% harm free, it's about doing what you can as a consumer and refusing to support animal exploitation, and also protecting insect life that supports other animals.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 28/07/2024 19:53

There's limestone in cement too. Just saying.

BigMandyHarris · 28/07/2024 19:56

FFS

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