How is Leather Made?

[@ACSReactions]

Featured in this video: Max, the producer’s 8-month-old goldendoodle.

[@BothHands1]

Reactions you made a dog into leather? 😭😭

[@Datan0de]

My one big complaint about this video is that its coverage of most of the process is much too vague. I don't feel like I really learned all that much from it.

[@hilikustue]

I agree, most are much more in depth. This one is kind of disappointing.

[@Matityahu-the-God]

I feel like it was meant to be a general overview of the topic. Not enough for you to start tanning yourself, just enough to give you an understanding of where it came from. Like, it's not really about how it was made, but the journey it takes from cow to collar.

[@chinedulinus2316]

Where else would quarantine lead me lol

[@AkshayKumar-jj1qv]

It's still leading me anywhere

[@M4rk155]

03:00 "You probably don't want to wear a jacket that was vegetable tanned" 04:06 "We'd like to thank Moore & Giles leather company, The genuine Italian vegetable tanned leather consortium"

[@lwgg742]

Yea indeed. It's clear who their sponsors were XD

[@Matityahu-the-God]

They probably make shoes.

[@TooTired_ToType]

​@@Matityahu-the-GodClose They make bags

[@leoleony1]

Just a minor correction, we know for SURE that hexavalent chromium is oncogenic, it most certainly causes cancer. It's not suspected, it is a certainty. As a pathology professor, I wish to highlight this.

[@clickbaitpolice9792]

nice colourful and informative presentation. Now, how are animals skinned?

[@divyapeethala8097]

:((

[@k3nz1e73]

Potato peelers times ten

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Honestly, that probably would be a very short video. People skin animals in the forest with nothing but a pocket knife, there wouldn't be much technical information to give.

[@User-cb4jm]

First you take the beef, and naturally there will be excess skin, may as well turn it into durable and natural leather products instead of wasting it.

[@deltabeta5527]

2:40 Ah! The good old days when child labour was legal

[@naviagetro8912]

@Alex you have a point

[@Frog_Enigma]

this is so cool. I wish we did this to everything we eat as to not waste

[@ghostparty2062]

Right! If the animal is getting used for food, then i thinks its good that we use as much of the animal as possible. I understand people who sulk about leather.

[@ashknoecklein]

Now I know exactly why vegetable-tanned leather is the only safe leather to use in parrot toys! Thanks!

[@MrOscarggg]

Rip cows

[@joe-nl9jd]

Yep

[@eaterdrinker000]

*Ripped

[@soniabrown7151]

Do you think there’s enough cows for all this leather though, just asking?

[@MrOscarggg]

@@soniabrown7151 for what lether?

[@MrOscarggg]

Yofi1929 they have to be Miller prematurely

[@BertaRS]

I had no idea of all this. Great video!

[@metal.kittens]

they left out the part about how they remove it from the animal

[@sohelkazi8028]

How can I remove the cow leathe hairs with chemical as a first prosse ?? you can tells me more information. thank you.

[@leahdashes9421]

I don’t want to sit on my couch ever again

[@alexbblacksbblacks2873]

Me 2

[@lazyperfectionist1]

There's this argument that animals shouldn't have to die to give us food, especially considering that we are _omnivores._ What about the notion of animals dying in order to give us _clothing?_ Given that we can find alternatives for the _first_ end, it should be _laughably_ easy to find alternatives for the _second._

[@Datan0de]

As a mostly-vegetarian who owns a badass leather jacket that I love, I honestly wrestle with this question.

[@Hitogata]

@@Datan0de There are fake leather jackets that look equally badass. Enjoy yours, but one day if you need to replace it consider an alternative!

[@lazyperfectionist1]

@@ModalSoul Oh yeah. Animals eat animals. It's nature's way. Watch out for those bloodthirsty cows. Don't forget about rabbits and horses. They'll getcha fer sher!

[@Kira-tu3xp]

Yup, tons of clothing options that are vegan and cheaper than leather or fur.

[@thegraveyard1858]

Tigran Mardirosian just fake leather dude LOL 😂 look it up

[@imbatman6454]

0:18 WHY??

[@jugzster]

Thank you animals for your suffering and sacrifice, just so we could have jackets and shoes and couches

[@carmarniah9360]

Leather can also be made from cactus, with 0 suffering.

[@pingui8433]

We're monsters.

[@aylinsanchez9496]

Humans are terrible

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@aylinsanchez9496 go live in a cave then, be a vegetarian and reject modern society. Throw away your phone, it uses metals mined by underpaid workers. Stop eating burgers, you know how much waste and deforestation that produces?

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@carmarniah9360 what about the cactus? 🌵

[@vulture-6]

I stopped using leather products after knowing the truth.

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Do you not wear cotton either? You do know they took the reproductive organs of the plant, tore the unborn children out, and used their fibers to make clothes. You're basically wearing an abortion and the uterus it came out of. Where something is from doesn't determine what it actually is or how it will affect you.

[@winonadaphne6445]

very sad when you realise how fucked up it is that baby animals are being slaughtered just to be turned into superficial items of status

[@preetinderjitsingh429]

Beware of karma before buying leather .

[@vulture-6]

Yes. Thanks

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Have you ever eaten a burger? Think about karma. Most of these skins came from the same cows anyways. It's like y'all only think about being nice to animals when it isn't something necessary for your personal life.

[@preetinderjitsingh429]

@@Matityahu-the-God thats just your false assumption, i am a vegetarian since birth and we drink milk from cows that our farmer community serves from local cattle. Beware of your karma if you eat beef patties though .

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@preetinderjitsingh429 yeah, you drink tea milk of slaves. Think about karma, those animals don't want to be caged against their will. Even if they do, they just don't understand what freedom is anymore because they've never had it. Think about Karma while you're on YT. The device you're using was made in a sweatshop by underpaid kids. Think about paper, it's made of innocent trees. Think about the house you live in, the wires in there were from a strip mine with horrible conditions. Crying about karma (which is the biggest form of confirmation bias there is) only made you look cool in middle school. There isn't some magic force that's gonna get you if you wear a jacket.

[@emu1400]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with using vegetable tanned hides/leather for clothing. The fact is that it it MUCH MUCH better for the environment, the hide and for you. How can you say that you wouldn't want to wear a jacket from veg tanned hides but it is perfectly fine to wear horrible hides tanned with tons of heavy metals causing cancer and pollution? Almost all of modern day chrome tanned leather is produced in countries with little to no laws concerning the waste that it produces or the safety of the workers. Not a very informative video at all.

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Umm, you didn't listen. The jacket would be very stiff. Not everyone is so extra with the hippie shit that they'll reject modern technology at every turn just so they can hug another tree. If that's how you feel about it 1. Make your own damn video if you can do better 2. Stop buying anything that isn't made 100% naturally, and supports local communities. You're trying to sound all righteous, but you definitely don't practice what you preach. Complaining about underapreciated foreign workers made you cool back in 2005, get with the times. "Oh no, these countries don't have proper pollution laws" yeah, not every country has the money necessary to support themselves like we do. We gave technology and capital necessary to make green changes. There's a reason we're still using coal and chromium leather. Price. You think we're just lazy and don't feel like changing? You should try to understand a bit more about why things are the way they are before crying. And at least be a big kid and try to think of a solution, complaining won't do anything. Stop begging big man uncle Sam to fix everything, they aren't your mommy.

[@emu1400]

@Matityahu People have made clothing out of naturally tanned hides (bark tan, brain tan, urine tanned in some cases) for thousands of years without complaining of it being stiff. It may be from the start but once you begin to wear it often enough it will soften up. I DO practise what I preach since I do all of my tanning by myself using furs that would have been thrown away by hunters or local farmers that can't afford to ship them off to tanneries or just don't care for it. I use organic oil and egg yolks from my own chickens (using the whites for cooking) who are free range and get to eat everything that the forest offers and, of course, regular organic chicken feed. I would never buy hides from stores that import chrome tanned hides from across the world due go the reasons I mentioned in my original comment. I try to buy produce and milk from local farms and eat seasonal food so that I can eat more Swedish fruits and vegetables instead of eating imported. I buy almost all of my clothing in second hand stores instead of supporting big companies who don't care for their workers and the environment. I patch my clothes when they break and when I do buy new clothes I buy from eco-friendly brands. Do I need to go on? I absolutely know WHY things are the way they are, why companies choose to have their unhealthy, non-environmentally friendly factories in poor countries where they can pay less than minimum wage for the workers. People are greedy and people love to subscribe to fast fashion, especially now when the peer pressure to show off your new stuff 24/7 is higher than ever. Money money money.

[@rosemarymorgan336]

You guys forgot brain tanning.

[@JacobthePoshPotato]

Actually fat tanning is the oldest form of tanning and mineral tanning has been around for thousands of years.

[@nowgoawayanddosomethinggoo8978]

"...and titanium" they're gonna be bulletproof now?

[@yrjkeenwa6584]

Yeah like how tf they make this or figure out how to do this back in the day 😅

[@searsa898]

I came to learn how leather is made instead i was lectured on chemistry.

[@anamorphicalan]

They have not said leather enough lmao

[@doloresberry3144]

It's a video about leather bruh

[@audreyakpaibor214]

OMG! I FILLED UP SIX PAGES JUST ON A 4:36 SECONDS VIDEO!!!!!!!

[@metal.kittens]

Where’s the part where you take it off the animal

Yeah that was something. Leather is gonna be a pass from me.

[@gwapsgarcia]

why do you have to speak too fast i have to slow it down to 0.75x to make it sound normal

[@cblanco69]

Sad asf 💔 they need to make synthetic leather instead

[@davidaguilarg.7093]

There is synthetic leather already but people like me prefer the real leather 🤷‍♂️

[@cblanco69]

@@davidaguilarg.7093 me too 😭😭😭

[@Matityahu-the-God]

Synthetic leather feels like plastic. Wtf is the purpose of getting tanned skin that doesn't feel like tanned skin? The look? We're in it for more than style.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

So why is Italian leather made such a fuss about?

[@planetofpcgamers2688]

HUMAN ARE SO CRUEL. SO SAD FOR ANIMALS

[@alexbblacksbblacks2873]

Right

[@justsomeguy6336]

Starve then

[@saunak9183]

2:56 Fucksible Leather

[@BothHands1]

Gross Interesting, but a huge nope for me lol

@@humanrightsadvocate Nice weirdo, are you real?

[@angelosaballegue8441]

@ simp

[@silverjay4455]

Thanks i feel dumber after this video

[@manioommen871]

PU leather or synthetic leather is an alternative. No animals harmed.

[@Matityahu-the-God]

So we should just throw away the skin from our burgers?

[@planetofpcgamers2688]

@@Matityahu-the-God YES

[@alexbblacksbblacks2873]

@@Matityahu-the-God #@#@ your burger

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@alexbblacksbblacks2873 I'm not going to #@#@ it, I'm going to eat it. Probably with a side of fries. Maybe even a cola, although I'll probably just get water. I try to stay away from soda, too much sugar for me.

[@OniCosplay]

So instead of using a byproduct of an industry that will not stop and honor the animal with using all of it, just use plastic leather and continue the vicious cycle of plastic used? Real leather products live 10times longer than any plastic/fake leather item

[@aadi109]

Best 👍👍👍👍👍

[@emperororange879]

E

[@vartikaindora5906]

She seems so excited to discuss, how beautifully animals are slaughtered.

[@Matityahu-the-God]

You ever ate a burger? Get over yourself.

[@vartikaindora5906]

@@Matityahu-the-God how is it in context with the comment ?

[@planetofpcgamers2688]

@@Matityahu-the-God NO I DONT EAT THAT JUNK FOOD

[@planetofpcgamers2688]

HUMAN ARE SO CRUEL

[@Matityahu-the-God]

@@planetofpcgamers2688 you're definitely a child, stay out of the conversation.

[@ayanfiljennah5584]

Appy

[@alya4765]

mbaknya jangan ngerap dong saya nya pusing ndengerinnya

[@sp50]

there are alot of animal cruelty that you dont show

[@iamjimgroth]

Not necessarily. It depends on what supplier of hides is used.

[@Kira-tu3xp]

True, True. You can't exactly get leather without slautering a cow. That's why Veganism is the bomb

[@iamjimgroth]

@@Kira-tu3xp Is slaughter animal cruelty?

[@Kira-tu3xp]

Jim Groth I believe it is, although I suppose you're free to think otherwise

[@iamjimgroth]

@@Kira-tu3xp I believe the emotions during the life of the animal is what decides this.

[@andreea6564]

why didn't you talk more about how leather is ACTUALLY obtained? about how you kill those animals like they're only a product?

[@davidaguilarg.7093]

People know but we wanna see how its tanned

[@nigelwest5776]

This is just an educational video on the tanning process though I would like to see that it could be a fun video to see how they r skinned

[@christianweibrecht6555]

This video took the time to mention that it comes from animals

[@OniCosplay]

Leather is an animal product. Using genuine leather as in belts, jackets, shoes and other items is much better morally than getting something made out of faux leather (pretty much just plastic) and having to rebuy the same item many times before the leather starts to wear down. The planet has a huge enough issue with plastic so it is doing it a favor to use leather products and honoring the animal it came from and using it instead of throwing it away

[@sunkbunz3767]

Because they are..? Lol

[@VOLL.11]

I'm vegetarian and I used to wear leather clothes but I don't want to hurt an animals.

[@michaelhopkins4318]

The female Narrator speaks so fast and pronounces her words run together so bad that you cannot understand hardly a word she says...she needs training BAD!

[@Matityahu-the-God]

You're deaf. Turn the volume up, slow the video down, and turn on CC