Vegan wool

[fuzzyjay]

This may be of interest only to the hard-core vegan... Scientists have discovered how to make a fiber from wheat gluten which may lead to wool from wheat. (Scroll down.)

If you're gluten-intolerant, though, you have another thing to worry about. I can see the warning labels on wool sweaters: "This sweater was manufactured in a facility that also processes wheat."

Comments

[pensivegargoyle.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....wearable seitan.

Vegan

[poodler.livejournal.com]

Do vegans refuse to wear wool? Um, like, "dude, I can't participate in the nakedity of sheep"

Re: Vegan

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

Any philosophy can be taken to extremes (and probably is, in Portland, OR).

Re: SF

[poodler.livejournal.com]

Really? I would have thought San Francisco as the birthplace of flogging a dead cause.

Re: SF

[fuzzyjay.livejournal.com]

The movement may be born in San Francisco, but then the more radical adherents must flee to a place where they won't be persecuted for their extreme beliefs. That place is Portland.

Re: Vegan

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I have known vegans who refuse to wear material taken from "enslaved animals". No wool,alpaca, qiviut, angora even though animals didn't die for it. They're enslaved. No honey, either.

As a vegetarian who knits, I use only natural fibres. Wool, alpaca and cashmere all rock my world.

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