Vegan kilts

[Adoom]

Interesting points for sure.
I can say that for many vegans, it's not just the "death" that they avoid, it's the enslavement. Keeping animals confined against their will or nature, for production to suit the needs of humans.
One could say "yeah but sheep need to be sheared", they need to be sheared because we bred them to overproduce wool in a way that the sheep can't live naturally. That's not cool in my books. I have also witnessed sheep shearing here in Canada, and it's cruel and hurtful to the animal, period. If I trimmed your pets hair the way they shear a sheep, you'd arrest me for animal cruelty and call me a monster.
One could say "we don't have to kill a cow to get it's milk", but the act of repeated impregnation and the removal of their young just to benefit from their milk production is also not cool in my books. One could also say "well that's how we've done it for thousands of years" but as a sentient being capable of advanced thought, I believe it's up to us to challenge ideas that are 1000's of years old in favour of progression under the guidance of compassion and empathy. There are new "vegan" leathers that aren't plastic or rubber, that are proving to be both sustainable, and durable. There are new cruelty free fabrics that are not poly-based that are quite promising, there's also the good old standby of hemp...but the US is so bassackwards about hemp that it will be a long while before we see serious gains in that production I'm afraid.
So in short, when I see someone trying to make new and improved 'vegan' products, I see it as compassionate progress swimming upstream against a sea of naysayers and traditionalists. And unless you're not drinking soda, or water, or your milk from a plastic container, or avoiding all petroleum based travel, or sourcing all of your consumed goods from your backyard, I'd hazard that the oil-based consumption of 99.9% of the REST of your non-kilt buying day kinda far outweigh any complaints about buying a PV kilt once in a long while.
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Or something like that.