Logical Schmogical

Just the other day a coworker was hassling me about what he saw as my vegetarian hypocrisy: that I wouldn't lay my bagel on a toaster rack that had just previously supported a chicken breast. First off, I wasn't complaining or voicing my frustration. I was just eating a dry bagel when the criticisms came flying.

"It is not logical."
I explained that I have gone out of my way to avoid eating meat since I was twelve, that it takes a considerable energy, so why would I just lay my bagel in chicken grease or, for that matter, use a meat spoon or meat gloves.
"It's not logical." Again with the logical. "Do you wear leather?"
"Yeah, a little. I try not to but, yeah I do."
"So there." And I ate my dry bagel, and he thought he was victorious.

Now I'm comfortable with my beliefs, but it did get me thinking. Are there any cute vegan shoes out there? I have tried to avoid leather in the past. I have scoured the earth for cloth bags (found a canvas carrier bag, but resorted, after months of searching to no avail, to leather for my handbag). I use a cloth wallet. We surprised the VW dealer when we asked if the more expensive Jetta came without the leather seats. "No they all have leather," he smiled. "But could they not?" We might as well have been aliens.

But shoes...all the shoes I have seen look frumpy. After a preliminary search, it seems the demand for leatherless shoes is growing. There are lots of distributors, and even a shop in the city the Lower East Side that sells them. Moo Shoes bills itself as the "first cruelty-free store of its kind in New York City," which means there are more. What you hear people? I am in the market.