Shoes

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We live for pleasure and acceptance, young and old. Appearance is important, for young people especially. Fashion is important and particularly for young women, their shoes have to look right. But for vegan women there’s often not much to choose from. It puts them in a very difficult position, as regards fashionable footwear.  And so, to the general matter of shoes. When I look, I don’t see much on people’s feet other than leather, whether it’s hardy walking boots or part of formal footwear. It doesn’t cross people’s minds to think about this co-product of the abattoir. Animals’ hides are often more valuable to the shoe industry than the carcass is to the meat industry.