With recable, you can get repairable, fair charging cables made in Germany for your smartphone. USB-A, USB-C, Micro-USB, Lightning (iPhone), we have them all!

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    vegan & cruelty-free recable should contain no animal products and is not tested on animals. This also applies to the packaging. BUT: Our cable manufacturer uses stearates as an additive. These are generally derived from plant or animal fats. Unfortunately, we cannot provide information about the origin of the stearates. recable is also RoHS certified. This EU directive prohibits certain toxic substances in electronics. Whether a substance is toxic is determined through tests. The substances covered by RoHS were tested a long time ago – most likely on animals. Can an animal test become outdated?

    So the cables are vegan except for the cables which are unknown!? TBH I don’t think they should advertise it like this then.

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      Yeah, this part killed me. Especially that if they haven’t meantioned it I’d never think a cable could be not vegan… So kudos for telling us this, but how can you claim vegan-nes on the same breath?

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      Why are they talking about a cable manufacturer when they are also saying that they make the cables themselves, except for the actual heads, which they get from China.

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      That’s hilarious. But the animal fat must just be a byproduct of the meat industry that would otherside be wasted? Would it be more respectful to the animal to use all of it and make USB cables out of it instead of wasting its fat? Obviously nobody is raising cattle just to make USB cables.

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        I can see where you’re coming from. But I do think it’s also an incentive to make money from every ‘part’ of the animal. The less that’s sold apart from the meat, the less profitable it is overall.

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          In an extreme case of undersupply or price gouging, I’m pretty sure there would be a cable company CEO buying into meat industry just to control the full line of production. They’d call it vertical integration or whatever, and then sell burgers as an afterthought. So yeah, it shouldn’t be considered good even if it’s just a part of a process or a leftover.

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        Giving any money to these industries is bad, even if it’s a byproduct. If they were donating, it would be a different story.