Why YSK: The term “Genuine Leather” is a marketing term to sell the lowest quality leather possible.

When purchasing a leather product, look for full grain leather or top grain leather instead. These will provide a much higher quality cut of leather that will look and feel much better and last for much longer.

  • queermunist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    By your logic, why don’t we flay off the skins of all dead people and wear those too? They’re just going to waste!

    I’m opposed to the animal killing industry and all of its various outgrowths. The less money that can be made from it, the less money will be invested into the industry in the first place. If the skins end up in a landfill, that’s lost revenue that makes the industry suffer. Putting money in the pockets of these businesses just lets them reinvest. Stop trying to portray your choice to wear skin as somehow the more ethical one and preach from some imaginary moral high ground.

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        1 year ago

        Tan me hide when I’m dead, Fred
        Tan me hide when I’m dead
        So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde
        And that’s it hangin’ on the shed!
        Altogether now!

        (actually, I unironically think human remains should be reused instead of preserved in a box lol)

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      I’d genuinely prefer if my family turned my remains into a fucking backpack instead of paying thousands of dollars to put them on a cushioned box in the ground

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      gotta love all the people throwing shade at you but never showing any actual counterargument. Average carnist behaviour, gotta keep the cognitive dissonance at bay.

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        Don’t you see? By not draping ourselves in the flesh of dead animals we’re actually being disrespectful of their sacrifices!!! You don’t want animals to end up in landfills, do you?

        Bleh. There’s nothing worse than these preachy types who try to assuage their guilt by presenting their practices as ethical. At least carnists that don’t care about animals are honest with themselves

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      Relax, no need to name-call. Otherwise, I’ll be forced to make a video of me badly singing “Imagine”, and nobody wants to hear that.

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        1 year ago

        Name call? Did I slip up and call someone a bloodmouth or something?

        I don’t think I called anyone any names, I just pointed out the fact that this reverse “gatcha” where people pretend like wearing leather is actually the more ethical choice is ridiculous. I have more respect for unapologetic leather wearers, at least they aren’t lying to themselves.

    • why don’t we flay off the skins of all dead people and wear those too?

      Because human skin makes really shitty quality leather. It’s not nearly thick enough.

      Human bodies aren’t even fit for composting, given the amount of pharmaceuticals and forever chemicals most have in their bodies by the time they die.