Read between the vegan headlines : Ecorazzi

Read between the vegan headlines:

I’m all for celebrating vegan products, but Tesla has always had the availability to make vegan cars, and still only can by request. It’s the selective broken telephone reporting I’m against. I guess we should start writing blogs about any base model Volkswagen because they come with cloth seats. And it’s time to start calling all the entry-level luxury cars with leather-faced front seats and vinyl back seats “half vegan”. Look, if vinyl bucket seats in 1970’s muscle cars have taught us anything, it’s that car manufacturers sometimes opt for materials other than leather for reasons completely outside of animal rights or sustainability. And we can’t celebrate Tesla-loving non-vegans for getting a car with synthetic seats any sooner, when it’s done completely without choice. And I know we’re not going to pretend that someone sitting on non-leather seats could be the start of...

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