I love leather, but I don’t love killing, so I just have a bunch of fake leather jackets – and they suck. I would love lab grown leather and lab grown meat.

I'm a leather craftsman, the majority of hides used in the industry are from cattles animals destined to meat consumption. Which means that skin is a by-product of our meat usage and would be destroyed if we didn't use it elsewhere, like making bags and all. The only animals that are killed only for their skin are the "exotic" ones, like snakes, crocodiles, frogs, ... etc. Which for me is kind of sad to see.

I'm excluding fur from all of this.

Yay!
Very soon we will have fake real skin on dildos!

You'll still get shit from PETA.

I love this, and I hope they find success with this. I also hope they find a way to make it not look like something out of Ed Gein's collection, because right now it's hideous.

The only thing I’m interested in is the energy required to produce one kilo of each type, the cow’s lifetime methane emissions and the labs CO2 emissions.

As long as its cost is the same or higher, nothing will come from this. Similarly to synthetic mica in cosmetics. It's not only free from the ethical issues, but also higher quality. And yet, almost all companies continue using natural mica - sourced from India's child labor - because it's cheaper.

Another example is gelatin in jellies. It's disgusting and makes inferior candies, but it's cheaper and so all the companies use it.

The market's invisible hand, eh?

I don't know if that image is the lab-grown or not, but I came here to say it looks like balls.

![those are balls] (https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/48c8b40f-4b35-47dc-9107-6570834a3837.gif)

Just give me dragon leather

who is very much alive, grazing at an animal sanctuary in upstate New York.

Riiiiiight. A farm upstate.

I wonder how it will stack up to the mushroom leather.

Did we finally figure out how to get four steaks worth of meat from a horse without killing it?