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Re:Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030 by BariumBlue on Friday September 24, 2021 @02:58PM (#28646468)
Cows are a fairly major producer of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas, contributing ~20-80x more to global warming than CO2 over the next 20-100 years.

I do think it's interesting that there are different definitions / categories of "sustainable" right now - global warming sustainable, ecologically sustainable, resource sustainable - and they do seem to get conflated together.

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Re:Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030 by willcipriano on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:28PM (#28646775)
Are cows grown specifically for leather? If the demand for leather dropped to zero, would any fewer cows be raised?
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Re:Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030 by csb6 on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:28PM (#28646787)
Not to mention the large amounts of land and water used to raise cattle.
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