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Many shoes contain leather or wool or something. Vegan isn't just about food
I know right, I'm surprised there are so many people here who don't appear to get that. If I look at the image I assume the seller of this pair of shoes just slapped a buzzword on but vegan shoes and clothing are a thing and since when is everything that is not vegan carnivorous? Cheese and honey are also neither, right.
Jokes like this aren't to imply that there are only two options. It also implies the existence of pescatarian shoes for example. The joke is that you apply other related terms to the situation, usually the most absurd of them. In this case carnivorous was probably chosen for the implication that the shoes themselves are carnivorous and would eat you if you wore them.
In that case I just didn't get the joke because a meat-eating shoe would make a good joke
So, mostly plastic with some plant materials?
It depends. For example I just made one quick search, "biodegradable vegan shoes", and this was one of the first results:
Also see here, leather at least as bad environmentally, in addition to being ethically awful.
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Vegans avoid animal products outside food too?
Yes.
Sorry didn't mean it as an actual question. More an incredulous tone
Depending on the reason for being vegan.
For animal rights/ethics, yes.
For health/climate, potentially less so.
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Vegan aka Synthetics. It's just a fuckin buzzword.
Now if it was Oil and Animal free It would kinda cool.
Something tells me the label "Plastic" wouldn't sell as well.
I have shoes that is printed from algae, they are vegan and synthetic free
That is actually really cool.
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No, vegan aka not made with shitty glue made of animal bones. It is not just a buzzword.
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That would be kind of wild! I wonder if it's possible with that mango leather I've heard about.
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This pair of shoes was made by happy vegan child labor instead of sad carnivore child labor.
I am pretty sure that called leather
Vegan "leather" is made of plastic. Plastic is a by product of the oil industry. Oil is made out of dinosaurs. Plastic is not vegan.
Take THAT PeTA!
Also huge eye rolling and /s
Aren't most cheap shoes vegan? It didn't occur to me this is something I have to watch out for
There are a lot of leather shoes. :)
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Alt: wool lined moccasin
Also looks to be made of leather too, which is kind of a bigger problem.
No. Instead, it implies that eating this shoe is better for your health than eating a non-vegan one.
Do we have a term for individuals that refrain from eating shoes? Because vegan shoe or not, I identify as a person who doesn't eat shoes.
Now I can eat shoes without feeling guilty.
i don't know man, that looks synthetic to me
what would dinosaurs think of this "vegan" shoe?
How does it being synthetic have anything to do with it being vegan?
And a dinosaur would think "cool shoes".
He's just being a pedantic asshole
Those fabrics are made of plastic, which is derived from oil, which forms over long periods of time from buried decaying plant and animal matter. 70% of the Earth's oil is from the Mesozoic Era, which encompassed the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods, so formed during a time when dinosaurs lived and jokes about oil being made of dinosaurs are common. Oil is actually made of plankton rather than dinosaurs, though.
My guess is that the lack of leather constitutes being vegan.
Also lack of animal based glue.
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@essell
Some shoes have leather in them, in the past it was almost universal that shoes would be made of leather, but with the advent of modern plastics and rubbers most shoes these days aren't made of leather anymore, since leather is more expensive.
Side note, in the past shoes were much more repairable and there were actually people known as cobblers who would make and, get this, repair shoes. Nowadays many modern shoes, especially sneakers, are built in a way that makes them significantly less if not completely unrepairable, which really sucks. We should be able to repair shoes just like in the old days #righttorepair
You seen those alligator skin cowboy boots? Thems carnivore shoes
I'm not ready to commit to vegan footwear, but I'm happy with my vegetarian sneakers.
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