Source on these claims? Leather production isn’t exactly easy on the environment, nor the health of (typically third-world country) workers involved in the process.

Personally I’ve been wearing the same pair of synthetic leather boots to my job which has me walk ~20k steps a day for 5 years now, and the only part of the shoe showing signs of wear is the rubber sole, which I had to glue back on.

That claim could be easily debunked with a five minutes Google research. 🙄

E.g. https://interestingengineering.com/lists/plant-based-leathers-environmental-impact

Nobody said anything about the environment or it being better???

OP is trying to find clothing that doesn’t involve animal exploitation

I can’t believe how much people arguing with the premise of the question has ruined this thread.

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