I am delighted that the livestock hides are used to make high-quality leather that people can benefit from for decades, for example in the form of sturdy hiking boots.
The destruction of living, cultivated resources would never be an option for me and would also represent significant environmental contamination. Replacement materials, in the worst case plastic, would have to be produced instead of leather. This would consume water, raw materials, additional energy and introduce numerous chemicals into the natural environment.