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Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Is it Vegan to Wear Second Hand Leather, Wool, or Silk?

Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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A dilemma a lot of new vegans grapple with is what to do with all the animal-derived products they have from their pre-vegan days — leather shoes, wool sweaters, down-filled pillows, etc. — and a question a lot of people ask is "is it vegan to wear / buy second hand leather, wool, silk, etc. In both cases, the harm has been done, but there are a lot of arguments for and against wearing these items, including: 

  • being vegan means not wearing any animal products at all, so you can't be vegan and do so.
  • even wearing second hand leather is giving tacit approval that it's okay to kill animals for their skin.
  • second hand leather is more environmentally friendly than new synthetic leather.

And so on. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Welcome to Food for Thought. My public service announcement for today is to avoid hurricanes at all cost.

0:07.6

Hi everyone. We're just doing a rebroadcast today because I was in Florida, in Tampa, in the Tampa Bay area during Hurricane Milton, and I was there to visit my father and my sister.

0:19.4

No one could have anticipated that a second

0:22.0

hurricane would have arrived just on the heels of Hurricane Helene just a week later. So I

0:29.4

purposefully chose to go to Florida to see my father in October rather than in August because

0:34.5

I cannot stand the heat. And that's what happened. So I'm glad in the end

0:39.9

that I was there helping out because it was pretty chaotic and pretty crazy. But that meant that

0:45.7

I wasn't able to record the new podcast episode. I'm excited. I will be sharing it with you next time.

0:51.9

And it's a follow up from the episode I just launched,

0:55.3

which was on blood work and why we want to get our blood panels done and look at our biometrics

1:00.4

to determine optimal wellness. And we can make, you know, so we can make some tweaks if we need to.

1:05.8

So the one that I will be sharing with you and intended to share today is on omega-3s and what it means for our

1:14.2

health, our brain health, our heart health, and why we want to get our omega-3s tested to make sure

1:18.9

that we're in the really healthy range. So that will come next time. Today, I'm going to rebroadcast

1:23.6

this episode that is a popular topic. I get asked this question a lot. And I will cut off some of

1:31.0

the announcements from when I recorded this a couple years ago. But I will say this. If you are

1:38.1

interested in pre-ordering my new book, go to joyfulvegan.com slash pre-order. Right now, it's just about giving me your

1:47.8

thumbs up to let you know when pre-ordering is available because we have finalized our cover,

1:54.1

we're finished with the editorial process, it's now going into production, and it should go to

1:58.7

pre-ordering very soon. So head over to joyfulvegan.com slash pre-order or just go to the home page and you'll be able

2:04.3

to put in your email address if you want to be notified when the book is ready.

2:07.9

This is the book called A Year of Compassion, 52 weeks of living zero waste, plant-based,

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