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That's quite an interesting one from some perspectives, if it really lives up to the claim of outperforming leather for strength and durability. Just last week I was chatting with someone about the lack of vegan options within motorcycle equipment (admittedly within a certain aesthetic niche). No boots essentially, and we couldn't think of a way of them being made but this stuff could maybe do the trick
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That's quite an interesting one from some perspectives, if it really lives up to the claim of outperforming leather for strength and durability. Just last week I was chatting with someone about the lack of vegan options within motorcycle equipment (admittedly within a certain aesthetic niche). No boots essentially, and we couldn't think of a way of them being made but this stuff could maybe do the trick
Well, I do hope that it'll live up to its promises, but so far we basically have a write-up of a corporate press release. Let's see.
Oliver Schick
Another vegan replacement product:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/dec/02/californian-firm-touts-mushroom-leather-as-sustainability-gamechanger
I'm always sceptical about these attempts at establishing massive industries to produce such things. It's that problem of parallelism; while this sort of stuff may replace some uses of animal leather (and, as ever, it's questionable whether it makes sense to call such analogues the same as what it's supposed to replace), I can't imagine that it'll have exactly the same qualities as animal leather, e.g. thermally. Maybe it does, but to think it'll make any real inroads into the demand for a waste product of the cadaver industry I think is a bit of a long shot. Hope I'm wrong.