• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Better than they used to be” is kind of meaningless when they’re still not anywhere close to competitive with trash ass bonded leather.

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      1 year ago

      I owned a vegan leather jacket many years ago and it literally disintegrated, it just turned into flakes and a thin layer of some fabric underneath.

      I’ve heard cactus leather is quite good and seen it used by a few brands. Behind that, I don’t know much about this.

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        1 year ago

        I have no issue with trying to find new ways to make similar products. It’s definitely interesting in terms of material science and processes. But the options aren’t particularly close to anything anyone would actually choose side by side without any of the discussion of ethics. Which, if that’s something you care about, whatever. I don’t, and won’t. That’s what a cow is.

        But if you have issue with it for whatever reason, there are plenty of perfectly fine and perfectly functional natural options for most things that don’t try to pretend to be leather. There are a variety of woven fabrics that work just fine. I’d be willing to bet that you could make some kind of waxed canvas case that’s a hell of a lot more durable than the crappy leather Apple uses for a decent bit less money.

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          1 year ago

          This is like when my in laws invited everyone over for burgers but didn’t tell people they were vegan burgers. They served Portobello mushroom patties and a bunch of stuff mixed in and it was quite good, but people were expecting burgers and the whole thing went over horribly.

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              There were some faces like Ron not getting his steak from Mulligans, but it mostly just featured extended family complaining on Facebook drama.

              Since it wasn’t my side of the family it’s kinda funny how big of a deal people made it. People knew they were vegan, I don’t know why they were assumed it wouldn’t be vegan food!