who is very much alive, grazing at an animal sanctuary in upstate New York.
Riiiiiight. A farm upstate.
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I'm a leather craftsman, the majority of hides used in the industry are from cattles animals destined to meat consumption. Which means that skin is a by-product of our meat usage and would be destroyed if we didn't use it elsewhere, like making bags and all. The only animals that are killed only for their skin are the "exotic" ones, like snakes, crocodiles, frogs, ... etc. Which for me is kind of sad to see.
I'm excluding fur from all of this.
I mean we need to reduce our meat consumption anyway, especially beef for climate change and land/water use reasons, so it would be nice to have a leather backup once the current supply of beef cattle starts to dry up.
we need to reduce our meat consumption anyway
some people might need to, but it's not universal
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Then lab-grown leather pairs well with lab-grown steak
Lab grown meat is sort of a thing too. Its a good opportunity to cut down on natural meat production though i assume there are many other things used from a body that will still needed but maybe can be made effectively synthetically
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If someone is profiting, it's a co product
Yay!
Very soon we will have fake real skin on dildos!
Bad Dragon seems most-poised to benefit.
I love leather, but I don’t love killing, so I just have a bunch of fake leather jackets – and they suck. I would love lab grown leather and lab grown meat.
If you ride bite the bullet and get the leather Jacket. Nothing comes close for road rash prevention or water proofing.
Does that include modern materials like kevlar? I know mine was some kind of woven material with high viz sections on it
Yup. See fortnine video. I was supriaed too.
I’ve had them before. They are great. Leather is an amazing material for all sorts of stuff. I’ve sat on some amazing other sofas that I did not want to get up from, but that’s a lot of cows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwuRUcAGIEU
A short science rich explanation of why it's unbeatable while being dragged behind a motorcycle.
Hahaha, i’m not sure I ever plan on being dragged behind a motorcycle, however… This is good information to have thank you
It was an interesting and well made video, except for his insistence that leather’s structure is “intelligent”, when it’s actually evolutionarily refined over millions of years natural selection. He also went on to say that human engineers would have to be gods to mimic it. Granted this article hadn’t been published yet, and ironically the little leather key wrap he’s hawking at the end of the video looks like a great candidate for this lab grown leather.
Kangaroo leather is actually one of the best kinds for motorcycle jackets.
Deerskin is good for gloves too, and they’re also an invasive/overpopulated species where I live. Getting Kangaroo 1/2 way around the world is going to be a little more carbon intensive than I’d prefer.
I like the idea of lab grown leather that's tweaked for desirable properties, thickness, toughness, suppleness...
Can we call it Fleather? 😅 F(ake)leather
Sounds good to me.
I'd rather wear Fleather than eat feat.
Mmm, the suppleness of Fleather™️ feels good on the skin, and in your mouth!
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As long as its cost is the same or higher, nothing will come from this. Similarly to synthetic mica in cosmetics. It's not only free from the ethical issues, but also higher quality. And yet, almost all companies continue using natural mica - sourced from India's child labor - because it's cheaper.
Another example is gelatin in jellies. It's disgusting and makes inferior candies, but it's cheaper and so all the companies use it.
The market's invisible hand, eh?
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I don't know if that image is the lab-grown or not, but I came here to say it looks like balls.
![those are balls] (https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/48c8b40f-4b35-47dc-9107-6570834a3837.gif)
The only thing I’m interested in is the energy required to produce one kilo of each type, the cow’s lifetime methane emissions and the labs CO2 emissions.
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You'll still get shit from PETA.
PETA's only thing is to remind people of the existence of PETA. They are a con of an activism org and can suck my metaphorical dick.
You should have said physical. Even if it's PETA, blowjobs feel so amazing.
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"PETA bad"
what a brave statement
You are not one of today's lucky 10,000
Mabe you are.
Did you know most of the manufactured hate for PETA comes from a lobby group?
PETA also does a good job at manufacturing hate for themselves by being absolutely unbearable and contradictory
While I understand where you're coming from, but there generally in favour of lab grown animal products: PETA's view on lab grown meat
It doesn't matter how perfect you are, Peta will find something bad about you.
I love this, and I hope they find success with this. I also hope they find a way to make it not look like something out of Ed Gein's collection, because right now it's hideous.
I wonder how it will stack up to the mushroom leather.
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