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Leather is animal hide, there is no "vegan". Vegan leather is plastic, pleather, naugahyde. I'm all for new, sustainable materials. We just need to stop calling them stupid names that make no sense. It's a new material, give it a new name.
Leather is a fine word to use for non-animal alternatives. Like nut milks and vegan meat products. It's a classifier that conveys the use of the item.
Nut milks and other such products are also misleadingly named. They are not appropriate substitutes for actual dairy products. They don't taste similar, provide the same nutritional content, nor do they work in place of real milk for cooking or baking.
The only similarity is the color of the liquid. By this logic we could also label white paint as "milk".
Nut juice extract is more accurate.