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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is leather considered more ethical than fur?

is it just because we use the meat too?
gpt
It's because leather serves an important purpose, and would be difficult to replace as a material.  Leather is used as a strong, very flexible protective material in gloves, boots, jackets, pants, anything you wear really.  It resists tears very well but it's still possible to cut into manageable pieces.  It's thin, but it still holds heat very well.  It's entirely waterproof, as well as resistant to most corrosive chemicals.  And, it's cheap to boot.  We're slaughtering all these cows anyway, why not tan their hides.

Fur on the other hand, is very expensive, very difficult to make, and doesn't even do it's supposed job (keeping you warm) better then other more "ethical" materials like cotton or wool.  

Though leather is much more useful, it's probably mainly that leather is made from cows that we're slaughtering anyway, but one fur coat is made from a dozen wild foxes (or whatever)