Several vegan manufacturing companies are using biodegradable materials. Cork, bamboo, sugarcane pulp, pineapple leaf fibers, etc.
My wife and daughter have very stylish cork purses, for example.....
Are there impacts from manufacturing these? Of course, but we have chosen those over the direct cruelty (and major negative environmental impacts) related to the slaughter of billions of animals each year.
Why not but...how much does it cost...?
Besides is it all very nice saying - “It’s either you go vegan and you’re kind of earthy or you drive yourself crazy reading labels and trying to find options in stores like H&M," but we cannot all afford to go and buy such products...sometimes we do not really get a choice and have to "drive [ourselves] crazy reading labels and trying to find options in stores like H&M"...
Instructive article though, which is further proof that fashion is a concrete realization of the world's trends and evolutions.
What a wonderful development. So exciting to see that this is an international trend, too.
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Vegan leather is nothing new. I see no reason why they just don't start making Presstoff again.
I am thinking that there must be a great deal of processing involved in going from, for example, apple waste to the final product. So on the surface, this may sound good for animal
welfare but what about the environment? There has to be a balance somewhere and that seems missing so far.
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Most vegans wear cotton, denim, polyester, etc.
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The energy used to process waste products is far kinder to the environment than using plastic-based alternatives, which will not fully decompose for hundreds or thousands of years.
Good question...Several vegan manufacturing companies are using biodegradable materials. Cork, bamboo, sugarcane pulp, pineapple leaf fibers, etc. My wife and daughter have very stylish cork purses, for example.....
Vegan fashion, sounds interesting. For the cost of one of those expensive vegan clothes they could feed a family for a month. Are these born-again vegans also interested in a human cruelty free society too?
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Sure we are! This is high fashion, where the leather goods are in the thousands as well. Fashionistas as a whole are probably not that concerned with feeding the poor, though.
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@Ferdinand I am not sure what you mean by "born-again vegan," but note that these products seem to be the equivalents of non-vegan high-end fashion designers. So, the point you raise is more general to high-end fashion, and not to vegan-specific high-end fashion.
There is, of course, vegan clothing that is not the sort of thing you wear to a fashion show, and that does not carry quite a price tag. More directly addressing your last point: note that one of the ethical reasons to be vegan are the conditions that humans have to work in to slaughter, rear, etc. animals -- they're not enviable.
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Veganism reminds me of a joke by the Conchords.
The year is 2100. The bad news: elephants are extinct. The good news: no more unethical treatment of elephants.
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"cruelty-free"
Really quite aspirational... Kudos to those compassionate enuf to embrace this.
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