{"id":117696,"date":"2020-12-27T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/two-men-created-vegan-leather-from-cactus-to-save-animals-and-the-environment"},"modified":"2020-12-27T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T06:22:16","slug":"two-men-created-vegan-leather-from-cactus-to-save-animals-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/two-men-created-vegan-leather-from-cactus-to-save-animals-and-the-environment","title":{"rendered":"Two Men Created \u2018Vegan Leather\u2019 From Cactus to Save Animals and the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4sGOYbHoXo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cactus leather! \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The quest for vegan leather is a never-ending one, as more and more researchers are focusing on finding alternative materials to real leather and create a cruelty-free world.<\/p>\n<p>Two Mexican from Zacatecas seem to have found a great substitute in the form of Desserto, which is vegan leather made from cactuses. There have been some previous attempts of creating cruelty-free leather from plants or from pineapple, but two Mexican entrepreneurs have thought about investigating something closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Lopez Velarde and Marte Cezarez are the founders of Adriano Di Marti, and they are selling <a href=\"https:\/\/desserto.com.mx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Desserto<\/strong><\/a> for anyone interested in making vegan-friendly products. Desserto is made after nopal, which is a type of cactus, is processed into a material suitable for the making of all sorts of clothes and accessories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cactus leather! \ud83d\ude03 The quest for vegan leather is a never-ending one, as more and more researchers are focusing on finding alternative materials to real leather and create a cruelty-free world. Two Mexican from Zacatecas seem to have found a great substitute in the form of Desserto, which is vegan leather made from cactuses. There [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}