I’m not ready to commit to vegan footwear, but I’m happy with my vegetarian sneakers.
I am pretty sure that called leather
Kill a vegan, skin them, tan the skin, make shoes, add the same dual use Vegan sticker.
Vegan aka Synthetics. It’s just a fuckin buzzword.
Now if it was Oil and Animal free It would kinda cool.
That would be kind of wild! I wonder if it’s possible with that mango leather I’ve heard about.
Something tells me the label “Plastic” wouldn’t sell as well.
This pair of shoes was made by happy vegan child labor instead of sad carnivore child labor.
Vegans avoid animal products outside food too?
Vegans love microplastics.
Depending on the reason for being vegan.
For animal rights/ethics, yes.
For health/climate, potentially less so.
Yes.
Sorry didn’t mean it as an actual question. More an incredulous tone
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?
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.
plastics are usualy from oil, and oil is from dinosaura
although googling it now it seems it was disproven
Even if it wasn’t, it’s a valid point to argue that found roadkill is vegan (but still not safe to eat, RFK Jr), because no one is exploiting anyone else. There are lots of reasons for vegans not to embrace petroleum products, but the well-being of the animals and plants that formed the petroleum isn’t one of them.
when you’re trying to explain your stupid joke and get akchualied 😑
Sometimes I get the phrase “I’m autistic” sung to the beat of the electric slide stuck in my head 🤷
Almost all fossil fuels consist of plant matter laid down in the Carboniferous Period, before dinosaurs even evolved
Yeah it’s almost all plant matter I think.
My guess is that the lack of leather constitutes being vegan.
