On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 5:57:42 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 4:53:06 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >
> > I have a leather trifold. Bought it in Italy a dozen years ago at a
> > small leather shop in Florence. It was cheap so two years later I
> > bought another in a different color to use when the first wore out.
> > Looks like that will be inherited by my sone as the first one is in
> > great shape.
> >
> Leather. Good stuff and practically incapable of wearing it out.
>
> Bruce will have a hissy fit running backward BUT an animal must
> die for us to use this product.

Leather is a byproduct of beef and dairy No one would raise cattle exclusively for leather if cattle didn't have tasty meat and/or tasty milk. I've known vegetarians who've admitted to me that it's not about the welfare of animals, but that they think eating animals' bodies is gross.

Funny how kids are. I have a great niece who won't eat meat at all, but her younger sister would eat nothing but chicken wings if she could. She throws a fit if she doesn't get chicken wings pretty much every day.

The argument could be made that leather makes beef slightly cheaper to produce, and so makes cattle farming more profitable, but the rancher gets very little for the hides. Most of the cost of leather is because of the cost of processing.

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/brya...-176j5weg.html