Poor wording in the title. All leather came from living cows.
Yay!
Very soon we will have fake real skin on dildos!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.
Then lab-grown leather pairs well with lab-grown steak
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.
Synthetics are always going to be less
Maybe we can breed gmo cows that hold their breath from beginning to end /hj
I wonder how it will stack up to the mushroom leather.
FFS…lab grown meat, lab grown cow skin cells, they all grow being fed fetal bovine serum, which is not taken by donation.
So? How many die in those vs traditional methods? Why pretend to care about harm reduction and then shit on tech that could reduce it?
