• Buying fur/leather secondhand
  • Repurposing secondhand/garbage animal products (like an old leather jacket or boots that are gonna be thrown away and making like a belt or wallet?
  • Harvesting or using already dead animal products (like the fur from roadkill)
  • Wool? Specifically wool from sources that you know treat the animals well?
  • and this one is eating but is honey vegan? and if so why is honey vegan but wool from good sources different?

edit: pretty pls no struggle session I'm just curious to hear from people none of this is supposed to be a gotcha or anything

  • gordon [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Secondhand products are in a gray area, because there’s not a clear consensus on it. Personally, i don’t use those, because i don’t want to spread the idea that those are commodities. Even if it’s secondhand, wearing the skin of an animal as jacket shows that it’s an acceptable behavior. It’s the same for backyard eggs. Of course those chicken aren’t exploited like the vast majority of chicken, but eating those eggs would perpetuate the idea that eggs are food. For example, i wouldn’t eat my pet that died of old age. It isn’t food, it’s a corpse.

    As for honey, it’s definitely not vegan. On a lot of regions, honeybees aren’t a native species, and they’re imported to produce honey for humans. In the same time, they decimate populations of native bees, that are far more important for the ecosystem. Also (and i’d like someone to confirm/source it), some honey harvesting techniques are quite brutal and aggressive for the bees.