Weather the Leather
Just been reminded of the 'vegan' who wears leather boots. There are three issues that come to mind: i) It's a personal matter ii) The only definition of 'vegan' is an ongoing commitment to reduce the use of animals and hence their by-products iii) The boots were supposedly dumped.
Issue 1 It's a personal matter, that can't apply to the trust as it is guided by an agreement to others. Individuals can break the agreement but for the trust to change it would need all those concerned to agree to change the rules. Rules are very unlikely to change if the only aberration in someone eats a piece of food that contains an animal product.
Here it is worth noting the idea that someone may well inadvertently or decisively on rare occasions consume or use an animal product, is is not the same as regularly putting on leather boots which requires a permanent decision to use animal products. In the later case the animal product is being kept for future use. The same argument could then be applied to keeping animal food for later.
Issue 3 The boots were supposedly dumped. The argument here is that the user didn't create a demand for the animal use and it's otherwise going to waste.
Dealing with the notion that it's going to waste. Well only if someone sees it as a resource else it's just what it is. Sure if someone is need of footwear they may see it as a resource. Make 'resource' a link.
My own experience of a similar nature was when I was a 'fruitarian'. I was dwelling in Crete at the time and now and then people would give me food. I would check to see what I had been given and explain my diet and return anything I didn't want.
One day a young girl gave me a carrier bag, I was a bit tired and didn't get to look in the bag before she left. I was also probably a bit hesitant to jump on the issue of content due to her age.
Anyway there was one little problem, a big piece of cheese. I argued, with myself of course, that a) I couldn't return it; b) It was unkind to give someone food I considered unhealthy, not only bad for them but bad karma for me giving a way something as a gift when it was rubbish to me. c) I couldn't throw it away as the animal had suffered and my own laxness took the karma.
So I decided to eat it. It was a once of thought.
Someone recently, 33 years later, said I had missed the idea that I could have just kept the cheese forever: that surely would have made me more careful in the future.