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I know an 18 years old who is into vegan food, but she’s stuck on shoes. She loves shoes. What woman doesn’t? But there isn’t much of an alternative to leather fashion shoes yet. Here’s where she may want to NOT touch animals, but touch them she does, by way of her shoes. Why does my ‘vegan’ friend wear leather on her feet? Maybe it’s the fear of social suicide - a beautiful dress, a magnificent everything else and it all falls to pieces with canvas on her feet.
Of course this usually isn’t so much of a problem for men, well not for me certainly but then I’m not 18 and not dating. And of course it doesn’t matter eventually because as soon as there’s enough demand for a different line of shoe, then a whole range of magnificent plant-based footwear will appear … and at competitive prices. But that isn’t now is it.
The Chinese might be doing it already, and if so, then they can do it not just because of lower labour costs but because plant fabric is cheaper than leather.
The world is moving towards cutting unnecessary costs by ‘going-plant’. It’s going that way and fashion will shift towards both non-animal foods and fabrics. However it all depends where we spend our money. If you join the boycott and sponsor alternatives, fashions will change. And it’s the fashion market which determines whether we get shoes of the plant-based variety.
But back to my friend. It must be annoying to her, because of the shoes she chooses to wear, that she can’t actively promote vegan principle or Animal Rights. And in every other way she’s a real genuine hot-shot vegan and animal advocate.