Why YSK: The term “Genuine Leather” is a marketing term to sell the lowest quality leather possible.
When purchasing a leather product, look for full grain leather or top grain leather instead. These will provide a much higher quality cut of leather that will look and feel much better and last for much longer.
Perhaps the leather is as/more profitable, but the beef is still being eaten. Kind of misleading to state that Brazil barely exports that beef to the US when there are many other markets that it does export that beef to. It’s a distinction that I’m not sure is significant. As much of the cow is being used with little waste. As long as cows are getting killed for food as a “co-product” it’d still be a waste to throw out the leather (or the other way around).