Feathers, Frugality and Fashion

There are, of course, other dimensions to this but in considering it we should recall this:

“Fifty percent of all the world's fabrics are made from petroleum, and most of the rest are made from cotton (crops), which use 20 percent of the world's pesticides,” Yang said. “We wouldn't be consuming any products to make this fabric, because they're there anyway. We're adding increased value to agriculture without polluting the environment.”

Now we might just want also to ask questions about the ecological footprint of meat production, animal welfare and the chemical processes involved in the conversion [read the article for a very brief indication of it]. However, in the mean time while those issues might be being raised and addressed, at least reusing some of the waste seems like a worthwhile cause.
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