Leather vs environment was [100% veg*n ] Digest Number 391

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What chemicals are these other than alum and linseed oil? People have been

curing

leather and using animal hides for centuries if not millenia. The processes of

preserving leather are probably no more environmentally destructive than

growing,

importing and processing cotton, or certainly in manufacturing the plastics

based

clothing that many vegans favour.

 

In terms of environmental sustainability, it would probably be easier for a

small

self reliant community to produce leather items on a small scale than it would

to

be import and manufacture cotton clothing or the various substitutes that we use

that are dependent on the petro-chemical industry.

 

a future vegan-permaculture society would do well to look at alternative fibre

plants such as nettle or hemp, or some of the plants covered in the Plants For A

Future article at http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/fibplant.html

 

Cheers, Graham

www.landandliberty.co.uk

 

 

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> 11 October 2001 22:08

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> [100% veg*n ] Leather Vs Environment

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> Anyway , leather is just dead skin so think how many

> chemicals need to be added to it to stop it from rotting !

> Ashley x