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Ethical and animal-free fashion

Supply-chain reporting on animal-derived textiles, tanning pollution, mulesing, and the mycelium, cactus and recycled materials now reaching scale.

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Questions this hub answers

Is vegan leather better for the environment than animal leather?
It depends on the material. Plastic-based PU is lower-impact than chrome-tanned cattle leather on emissions and water, but not on end-of-life; mycelium, cork and cactus-based leathers perform best overall.
What is mulesing?
The removal of strips of skin from around a lamb's breech to prevent flystrike, still practised in parts of the Australian wool industry, frequently without adequate pain relief.