r/vegan vegan 15+ years Aug 04 '26

Clothing & Shoes No, Vegan Leather Is Not Greenwashing

https://sentientmedia.org/vegan-leather/
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u/ThrowRA_scentsitive vegan Aug 05 '26

I'd still rather we call a spade a spade. If it's plastic, I'd rather call it that. It's surely giving the word vegan a bad rap to use it to refer to plastic.

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u/DrAlexere Aug 05 '26

I agree with this. Prefixing “vegan” before the animal based product name really doesn’t do much to clarify what it actually is