Vegan Leather: A Better Alternative to Real Leather

As an elegant piece of raw material, leather has always been a symbol of class and luxury. Starting from leather bags, shoes, jackets, purse, etc, leather has been a popular raw material for more than 7,000 years until today. Leather is not a fabric; it is basically skin. It is neither woven nor knitted. However, it is used like a fabric, stitched into garments, shoes, belts, etc as per the demand.

What is leather?

Leather is a fabric made from animal skin. There are many different types of leather depending upon the animal and the techniques by which it is processed. Almost any animal can be used to extract leather and it can be given different looks and feel accordingly.

People using leather excuse their choice by saying that leather is not a result of cruelty but in fact a byproduct of meat industry, making it an upcycled raw material. The question that arises here is that is it really a byproduct? The answer to this can be given by understanding what a byproduct means. A byproduct is basically a secondary product which is created by the manufacturing of another product. For instance, the orange peels are the byproduct of the juice industry which are advanced into a fabric. The out-turn of a byproduct is to just reduce waste and there is no financial support to the primary industry. However, when one start to mercenaries these secondary goods for the sake of profits, it becomes a co-product. When it comes to the skin farming, in most cases, it is sold on a higher profit than the meat. An example of this is in the case of an ostrich where the skin is sold for almost four times the price of the meat. In this case, the meat here is sold as a byproduct. Cow leather comprises almost 60 per cent of the leather industry and some of the most sumptuous varieties of leather comes from newly born calves’ skin and in some cases, unborn calves. While fur industry is barbaric in the eyes of consumers and there have been many campaigns against the same, leather somehow remains cool as it is contemplated to be a byproduct of meat.?Whereas both are the exact same thing.

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