Many shoes contain leather or wool or something. Vegan isn't just about food

Vegans avoid animal products outside food too?

Vegan aka Synthetics. It's just a fuckin buzzword.

Now if it was Oil and Animal free It would kinda cool.

This pair of shoes was made by happy vegan child labor instead of sad carnivore child labor.

I am pretty sure that called leather

Vegan "leather" is made of plastic. Plastic is a by product of the oil industry. Oil is made out of dinosaurs. Plastic is not vegan.

Take THAT PeTA!

Also huge eye rolling and /s

i don't know man, that looks synthetic to me

what would dinosaurs think of this "vegan" shoe?

Aren't most cheap shoes vegan? It didn't occur to me this is something I have to watch out for

Alt: wool lined moccasin

No. Instead, it implies that eating this shoe is better for your health than eating a non-vegan one.

Now I can eat shoes without feeling guilty.

You seen those alligator skin cowboy boots? Thems carnivore shoes

I'm not ready to commit to vegan footwear, but I'm happy with my vegetarian sneakers.

@essell
Some shoes have leather in them, in the past it was almost universal that shoes would be made of leather, but with the advent of modern plastics and rubbers most shoes these days aren't made of leather anymore, since leather is more expensive.

Side note, in the past shoes were much more repairable and there were actually people known as cobblers who would make and, get this, repair shoes. Nowadays many modern shoes, especially sneakers, are built in a way that makes them significantly less if not completely unrepairable, which really sucks. We should be able to repair shoes just like in the old days #righttorepair

@196