Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria

Researchers at Imperial College London have genetically engineered bacteria to grow animal- and plastic-free leather that dyes itself.

Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria

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That is some good science. I never understood how you can be Vegan and then choose plastic leather (pleather). Not harming animals is good, but harming the environment is ok? Seems crazy. This type of science fixes that paradox.
- you're harming the environment way more by raising an cow, feeding it and then killing it than producing a thin layer of plastic either way
  
  Initially this sounds correct. However, plastic is a "forever" substance. So the long term disaster is the poisoning of the planet. That includes all living life being exposed to microplastics. This is not good for humans or animals.
  
  While I am very concerned about the environment, I'm not ok with killing another animal just so I can wear it's skin.
This is so interesting. I definitely invest in this as an alternative to “vegan” leather and real leather. Never been a real fan of vegan leather because of how the material is just not comfy at all and therefore tends to stick to you when your feeling hot etc but also how this is far more of an ethical choice in comparison to current “vegan leather” and leather in general.
Lets hope this scales!
exciting news
How long before I can order them and grow my own shoe? Exciting stuff!
When I read 'vegan leather' I thought this was going to a whole different place.
- Am I better off now knowing what the different place is?
- I think you're looking for veganboundary.com (mildly nsfw)

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