I mean, turning nettle and flax into cloth is a stretch, but relatively simple and purely mechanical.
Turning woodsy material into a soft, flexible fiber includes many steps, doused in chemicals, and yeah, mass production is the devil that is not even a detail!
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Rayon and its permutations are hideous. Classic rayon even as just a percentage of the fabric used to lead to catastrophic shrinking and I learned to avoid it as soon as I was old enough to buy my own clothes. The modern bamboo rayon also seems quite fragile. I’ve had some spectacular collapses of night wear and t shirts that I bought in the past few years that were in the modern rsyin/synthetic microfiber blend family. Crap that wears out is not sustainable.
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That is the real problem with our culture. It does not matter how sustainable the production is if the item does not outlive its creation timeframe.
You are better off with that top-of-the-line leather boot you won’t replace for years vs anything else you have to renew every other year. A friend of mine was vegan, and apologized for still wearing his leather boots. I am a meat eater, and practical. Nothing wrong with using an item that is not broken. The cow died long ago, you might as well wear the boots still.
I think those vat produced items can - in the far future - profit mankind.
In prolonged space travel, perhaps.
But on earth, we should redirect our thinking, and link us back up into the existing circle of life.
All things are connected. And we are ok to eat meat. We just do not need to eat cows from Brazil, there are plenty here. Or apples from Chile. Seasonal eating does have some benefits as well.
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