Well. Funny you should ask this. I have just been stressing over this whole topic. If a vegan is so pro-animal safety and all that jaz, it's ridiculous that they use leather. True vegans don't consume or use animal products OR by products. This includes WOOL, LEATHER, SILK. All three of those things come from animals. So, rethink your literal standpoint if you claim to be Vegan. Do some research on your beliefs and the statements you make. Go to any vegan website (try www.vrg.com) and it will share that information. It's like christians, catholics and mormons, well any religious organization. People claim all kinds of stuff, but yet they don't even truly know what their belief or religion stands for in entirety. So many claim something but pick and choose what they want to adhere by within their little group and "rules."

Anyway. A vegan is also ecological, with a concern for their environment. If you don't use animal by products, like fibers for fabrics and stuff, you end up using petrochemicals, synthetics. Only God knows how much of that crap is lying in landfills all over the earth, harming NATURE and in the end ANIMALS and MORE IMPORTANTLY PEOPLE with smog and what not from factories that produce the chemicals and stuff. That's my two cents. Sure you can't find a car that has cloth seats in a hybrid. RIDE A BIKE if you're that hard core. I mean we might as well really live off the land. Turn off your lights, stop using technology if you wanna get even deeper.

Wow. I have stepped off my soap box.
by the way. Meat and animal products are renewable resources. Synthetics ARE NOT. Who's saving the earth now ;)