Categoría: Sneakers

I try every new season: I search and search for sneakers and the new ones always end up at the back of the closet in the spotless box in which they arrived at my house. There is nothing that compares to my usual sneakers, ones that I bought a few summers ago and that I usually wear only with the heat. But, of course, when one summer passes after another and I continue to wear the same shoes, there comes a time when it suffers.

That’s how the other day I realized that this time I was serious, that this time I did have to buy slippers to put on, not to decorate the shoe rack. I was walking through a field with pebbles and stones when, suddenly, alas: I noticed a shooting pain in the big toe of one foot. One of the pebbles was sharp and had been stuck in my foot. And he wasn’t barefoot, no: the sole of the old shoes is so worn that any ‘accident’ on the ground can be a danger to my feet.

So I got down to work and looking online (nowadays it seems that we are ‘forced’ to leave the physical stores with which it is falling) I have found vegan footwear that looks very good. Why that denomination? Because it does not use any animal product in its manufacture, betting on sustainable methods in the production of the shoes. Of course, all this has its cost that affects the final price of the product, but in these times, it is better to pay a little more and not continue destroying the planet, right?

However, good footwear, whether vegan or not, also has to satisfy aesthetic criteria. And these shoes that I have found seem to be the ideal candidates to replace my old worn out soles because they have a very cool design. And although what you see on the internet is one thing and reality another, I think I prefer this vegan footwear. I hope to put them this time, because there is no more room in the shoe rack.

People are becoming increasingly aware that not everyone is a carnivore and that more and more people are going vegan. I personally have nothing against vegans, but yes, I do not like that vegans try to make the rest of us convert to veganism as they have done.

In supermarkets there are more and more products for vegans. The last time I went to a supermarket I realized this, because I saw some vegan burgers and sausages, something that seemed incongruous to me since hamburgers and sausages have to be meat. You cannot call hamburgers anything that has the same shape, they will have to find another name for them so that there is no confusion. The burgers I saw were made of seitan, if I have to tell the truth I did not know what it was at all and then I got a little informed and it is mostly wheat gluten, although I do not think that seitan knows half as well that the meat of the original burgers. Vegetarian sausages was something that also caught my attention, since all sausages are traditionally made with meat, but I was no longer interested in knowing what these sausages were made of. Vegan drinks have been in our supermarkets for longer and it is something that no longer attracts so much attention, but it does call attention to the number of drinks available to customers. I knew that vegan drinks existed but not that there was such a quantity

But it did strike me that you can buy vegan shoes that to tell the truth I do not know very well what is the difference with normal shoes, I suppose they will use materials to make them that do not come from any animal or something like that.

I suppose that vegans no longer have reason to be sad since nowadays they already have almost everything they can think of with their vegan version and this did not happen a few years ago.