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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 2607388" data-attributes="member: 14664">This is a question that comes up from time to time.My personal take on it is that I believe that animal products should be treated as taboo, evil in fact, and that to use them - even where they are pre-existing - risks weakening that taboo, and giving the impression that it's an okay thing to do.An analogy here is the fight against furs, when they tried to get over an idea that fur coats were simply disgusting, and no decent person would want to be seen in one. This wouldn't have worked if they were simultaneously saying that it was okay to wear fur coats that you already had.However (and this is a big however) whilst I personally don't agree with the wearing of pre-existing animal products, I do not consider that it disqualifies someone from being a vegetarian or vegan.In other words I still recognise vegans who wear pre-existing leather shoes as vegans, merely vegans who are following a different interpretation of the code to me. (Whereas if a "vegan" was to go out and buy a pair of leather shoes, I simply wouldn't consider them a vegan at all).Hope that all makes sense.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>