Vegetarian Shoes
Finally, you can extend your vegetarian lifestyle to your shoes. It's hard to find good shoes that aren't ugly, and that are comfortable and good for your feet and made from cruelty-free, earth friendly products.
Prompted by a desire to avoid using animal-based materials such as leather or snakeskin, many vegetarians and vegans choose footwear that is often referred to as "vegetarian". Vegetarian shoes are usually made from non-leather materials such as canvas, hemp, polyurethane, rubber, Spandex or cotton. Many shoe companies now use a blend of cotton and polyurethane to create an animal friendly leather substitute.
The debate of whether leather shoes are acceptable to the vegetarian community at large has been raging for years and until the invention of leather look-alikes, there were no good alternatives for sharp looking shoes that were also animal friendly.
Many vegetarian shoes are not only animal-friendly and cruelty free, they are also earth friendly and are made from recycled rubber tires and plastics. There are a good number of shoes made form hemp as well. A great example of an earth friendly pair of sandals are the Earth Sandals Miami line of shoes. These good-looking sandals are made from solid rubber with a nylon strap. Best of all, they are airport friendly as they do not have a metal bar that goes up the middle of the sandals as many styles of sandals do.
If you're looking to extend your animal and earth friendly lifestyle to your feet, get a great looking pair of sandals and feel good about your choice!
posted by Sandals Giant
