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Why do so many vegetarians wear leather/suede shoes/belts/coats/pants?

Isn't it worse to skin an animal and leave the flesh to rot?

Public Comments

1. They don't have a problem with killing animals, they just don't want to eat them because they think it isn't healthy.
2. Because they're not Vegans.
3. b/c they're idiots
4. It's pleather
5. thats not me i don't do that but my mom does but she don't get meat cause it makes her sick...if that helps
6. i think a lot of vegetarians are hypocritical in that sense. i think in the big picture its worse to sport animals for vain fashion purposes rather than to nourish our bodies by eating them. just a though.
7. Because I do not believe that they are going to eat their clothes. Some vegetarians don't eat meat just because they do not like the taste of it. My sister does not eat beef because it makes her physically ill.
8. Sometimes being a vegetarian has nothing to do with animal rights they just want to eat healthier.
9. yea that to me is cruel. i mean i'm not a vegitarian b/c i don't see anything wrong with having animals as food. but i absolutely do not wear any animal skin products. i think its wrong to use animals as clothing and cosmetics.
10. they are hypocrites
11. i don't know! i am a meat-eater.
12. seriously it so mean that people would do that to an animal even with out anesthetic i know i wouldn't like if someone did that to me!!!
13. vegetarians and vegans are different. Vegans do not use any animal products. Vegetarians eat some animal produce like eggs or milk. They do not care about wearing it because they know that the animal was also used for food. Vegans don't make leather products. Also, many vegetarians are forbidden by moral/religious reasons to eat meat.
14. i am a vegetarian, but have never had a problem with fur coats or leather or suede etc. It's one thing to actually kill and animal and eat it's innards, but just to display it's beautiful hide, is not that much of a crime. True, it's a shame we need to kill animals at all, but if you think about how many chickens the average person kills or cattle or lamb....
15. Maybe they are wearing faux... but if not, maybe they just are vegetarians for health reasons... meat (grocery store non-organically fed) contain hormones that are bad for you. Or maybe they don't like meat for some other reason. There are animal products in everything... even tires on your car... so it's pretty difficult to be a true vegetarian or in this case, vegan.
16. Many people consider the use of leather a waste management issue. Cows and other animals are not killed for leather-- they're killed for meat. Leather is considered a by-product. So, wearing it is actually a type of recycling.
17. I don't know what kind of vegetarians you have been running across, but they should check their priorities, cause that is the epitome of hypocrisy! If it makes you feel better, I'm a vegetarian and I don't do that kinda junk...
18. Lots of reason but most of the leather out there the WHOLE animal is used. Now a day there is an industry for every part of the animal, leather is just one by product.
19. The question you really need to be asking is are these "vegetarians" vegan or do they just not like the taste of meat? If they have an ethical claim to the abuse/ misuse of animals, they are most-likely wearing faux leather, suede and fur!
20. No , they have already killed the animal for meat etc. and we wear the remains but we don't eat the meat for the simple fact it is not healthy and we are not carnivores
21. they do?
22. a) difficult to find decent non-leather ones (although that is changing) b) not the same emotional impact as sticking bits of a dead cow in your mouth, chewing it and swallowing it.
23. There is always someone to eat the flesh. Some vegetarians bought the stuff before they went veg and don't care to waste it. Some vegetarians are veg for health reasons, so leather is fine with them.
24. That's the difference between a vegan and a vegetarian.
25. I am a vegetarian and i don't wear any of those things, and if people to wear those, it is most likely fake
26. Not all vegetarians are into animal rights. Some people just don't like meat or feel healthier eating a vegetarian diet. Wearing leather wouldn't make a difference to them.