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  • prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Can you define “non exploitation”?

    My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are “already dead” due to their use as meat.

    So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn’t consider it vegan though.

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netOP
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      7 days ago

      Can you define “non exploitation”?

      I probably could, but I cannot say what Donald Watson or Leslie Cross or anyone else meant.

      My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry

      It is a co-product, and it directly supports the industry.

      so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are “already dead” due to their use as meat.

      Dinosaurs did not die as a result of humans exploiting them in order to consume their bodies. Cows live and die solely for the sake of exploitation.