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America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

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Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

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Post by human20190310 »

jbob2000 wrote: post #11

This is a shame because if you search for leather goods online, you’ll find whole shops full of garbage quality leather called Premium Crafted Leather aka PU Leather. They take leather fibers and coat it in polyurethane to give it a “proper” finish. It’s disappointing to see a race to the bottom with leather quality when it seems like there’s no need for that.

Non-leather goods are even worse. It's really hard to find a vegan wallet and belt that isn't pretending to be leather in some inadequate way.

Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

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Post by mwfunk »

craftyguy wrote: post #17
_bxg1 wrote: post #3

Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.

Your anecdata is obviously incorrect. It's amusing how folks on 'hacker' 'news' struggle with this concept.

That’s what the person you were responding to was saying- that they were surprised at the difference between their anecdata and the real data. And you responded by shitting on them for no good reason. Great job.

Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

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Post by 1123581321 »

_bxg1 wrote: post #3

Americans are eating more beef than they have in a decade? That's really surprising; seems everyone I talk to - not just vegetarians - have started looking at beef as something to be indulged in only on occasion. I assume the climate impact is the main reason.

I would bet money that some of the people you talk to have had a McDouble in the last month. :)

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Post by southerndrift »

PopeDotNinja wrote: post #14
diminoten wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huge swaths of America still see meat as an every meal thing ( myself included), and beef is a large part of that.

I would have a hard time without meat. There's so much food I don't like.

What do you eat besides meat? Since meat has the lowest energy density, you most likely get your energy from other sources anyway. Even if you eat 500g / 1lb per day for a 2000kcal target, you would still get 1500kcal from other food.

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Post by inimino »

happytoexplain wrote: post #13
jobigoud wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is per capita. It would make more sense to get total numbers in this context.

I disagree, if we're saying that "this context" is the GP post's surprise.

Leather and leather goods are easier to export than beef, so what really matters would be total world supply and demand, not so much local per capita consumption, no?

Re: America has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge

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Post by criddell »

reallydude wrote: post #4

I saw a pile of leather pieces outside a home, on the street, near Seattle with a sign that said "free leather". I'm not sure why anyone would want it, but it looked sad...like someone had died and they were clearing the home.

People make stuff with it.

Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/Leathercraft/

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