On 28/03/2021 19:13, Rod Speed wrote:
Fredxx wrote
Harry Bloomfield wrote
Jim GM4DHJ wrote

how many cows died for your leather seats ? ....

Leather is a by product, not the main product.

It hasn't always been that way. If you look how Oxo cubes came about
it was because meat was an unused and wasted by-product of producing
leather.

Much more likely to have been a byproduct of scraping the remaining meat
off the hide rather than all the meat from the animal the hide came off.
Unusually wiki is no help about that.

It was said that before refrigeration on the USA it was impossible to
make any use of the carcass the hide was taken from.

This is an article of a South American version:
http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1512/1/U118849.pdf

"Rather, vaquerias concentrated primarily on leather, which had greater
value and carcasses were left to rot in the countryside".

Found this:
https://www.farminguk.com/news/argen...xo-_14259.html