 what's going on everyone welcome to another video finally got my laptop back that was an agonizing week without my laptop I did not realize how much I rely on my laptop to do all my work I mean everything basically happens from my laptop it's one of the main tools I use to advocate online to do all of my activism basically I need my laptop so grateful to have it back grateful to be able to put more content up for you guys now this video here I thought I'd do a little video on vegan products and sometimes the non-vegan products that can slip under the radar so when it comes to vegan products basically almost vegan as it gets I mean all my all my hand creams toothpaste deodorant aftershave my belts belts are easy to see skateboard belts they're they're like made of fabric even my toothbrush floss a few years ago I went through and cleared everything out so but this video is about some things that can sometimes slip under the radar recently I had a discussion with some other vegans about these cannon straps so I've got cannon 70d and someone actually said to me that that maybe there's a leather attachment on the camera at first and they also said that the strap has leather on it so what I'm thinking is this part here because this part here is obviously synthetic but it's this part here so what I did is I ran cannon Australia firstly about the the actual camera and if I had any leather attachments they said no it doesn't so and then later on I rang them about the strap I rang them about the strap and I said does it have a leather attachment on the end an animal skin leather so they did some verification for me and they come back and they said no it's it doesn't have animal skin leather it's synthetic leather that is from cannon Australia now if any of you guys have any other information that contradicts that I'd love to hear it but for now I'm going to take their their word for it feeling it back a little bit yeah definitely could be synthetic so that's coming from cannon Australia don't take my word for it give them a ring yourself if you've got one of these cannon straps but that was one of the first things the second thing now yous are gonna I don't know how many people know about this but it's gonna spin you out so when I was so I've got these when I was in the UK I got a VR headset to do my advocacy VR headset so you can show people what's happening inside a slaughter house really good so I've got these headphones these so they can they can get get in there and like get the sound really good quality sound that cuts out the noise noise from the outside and these are beats by Dray okay pretty cool headphones really good quality headphones but after buy after purchasing these I've got them second hand so they weren't brand new these were from used product store so that was good in a way because it's not directly funding the industry I'm about to tell you about but the reason these aren't vegan is can you guess so those muffs here these muffs they're made of leather now how do I know this someone actually messaged me a few months back and asked me Joey do you know where you can find vegan headphones and I was like vegan headphones why she says yeah because a lot of them aren't vegan and I was like wow wow didn't realize that but then I bought these forgetting about it and after after purchasing them I remembered and I thought I'd ring Apple who owns beats by Dray to verify so I rang Apple and they come back and they said all of these beats by Dray headphones use genuine leather genuine leather okay so that is one thing that I didn't know and I was just like wow so what one thing I'm stuck on is I don't know what to do with these headphones so I don't know whether just I don't think it's a good idea just to throw them in the bin um maybe I could donate then the the issue I have is I don't want to promote the use of leather I don't I mean I could get these reupholstered what are you guys thinking the comment section help me out with this I could give them away or I could throw them in the bin I don't I don't know what to do with them help me out and also alternatives I've got these these are some Phillips ones these are cheaper these were 25 dollars all right I think these are about 200 dollars in the store but I bought them second hand for about 60 pounds or whatever these ones here they're obviously synthetic no issues with them they're cheaper but you know what and they're not as good quality but I don't care I'd rather sacrifice quality than have skin on my ears or advocate with skin on the um headphones the next product was okay so these ones slipped under the radar for a long time is a pair of white shoes that I had and it's a really interesting story of how I found out about this this was what what I wanted to focus on um predominantly so these shoes are they're a 2012 Nike uh this is the exact make modeling color of the ones that I had and so 2012 Nike right I've had this it's October 2013 so a long time ago I got them before I was even vegan here's a photo of me wearing them in 2014 so they look synthetic these ones are really really freaky because they look synthetic and it's really hard to tell because you can get shoes like that that look the same that are synthetic so you've got to be really careful but a girl that I met in the UK she's been vegan for about 20 years she actually brought it to my attention the way she said it though so positive so uplifting and and just basically giving me the heads up and I was like oh wow thank you so so I did a bit of verification because they're so old I couldn't find what that model was made of but there are some newer models which do contain a leather upper so that they are synthetic but they do have a leather upper that was uh my mind was blown I felt a bit disgusted by that and I got them disposed of straight away I don't know whether giving them away is a good sort of a good solution because then you're basically giving them to someone else to I don't think promoting the use of leather is a good idea personally someone might like what those shoes look like and want to buy some themselves I'm glad that this positive advocate she's such a positive advocate come up and just gave me an uplifting heads up and said hey you know like those shoes they might not be completely vegan had you checked them out so that's what I wanted to focus on like positive advocacy it actually made me reflect on my advocacy as a vegan to non-vegans you know really lifting someone up and just informing them it's a better way it's definitely a better way and it's a very positive way to make someone aware of uh of products you just you know you just might not have not have even known so that's basically the gist of it they're the ones that the products that slipped under the radar um what do you guys think in the comment section do you think it's good to give these products away I mean like when it comes to my shoes I had them for nearly five years um and now that I've just disposed of someone else could have got another four years out of them but I don't want anyone to be thinking that it's okay to wear um animal skin as well so that's something to consider um animal skin deserves to be buried in the ground because it's just it's an innocent being that had their skin stolen from them basically these bits by Dray should I get them reupholstered should I donate them to charity I don't know this is their their $200 headphones I could throw them in the bin what do you guys think is the the most ethical thing to do in this situation the canon straps canon Australia told me that that's synthetic so we're on a winner with there and you know what like it's great that I'm in a community where we can just lift each other up positively help educate and inform each other in a positive way and I think that's the way forward for this movement so thanks heaps to my little UK friend who brought that to my attention I wouldn't have known otherwise I'm just I'm just grateful that I didn't buy any new products that contain leather because then that would be directly funding the industry and I would be a little bit more upset with myself if that was the case thank you so much for watching thank you to all my patrons who have given me just the overwhelming amount of support and I'm able to do my activism full time not have to worry about going to work and ruining my momentum that I built up and I've got a lot to give and a lot more to do and I've got a lot planned for the future thanks so much for all your love and support and this community is just an amazing positive caring community of vegans and I'm actually so proud to be a part of leave your comments and discussions down below and I'll see you all in the next video thank you very much