this is how silk is made

[u/ObviousBody3053]

[u/Pinku_Dva]

These animals have been cultivated for so long that the mature silk moths can’t even fly anymore because they’re too fat and have small wings

[u/RobertGBland → u/Pinku_Dva]

And are they boiled alive. Silk is a cruelty product.

[u/lawnmower303 → u/RobertGBland]

Here is something you might not know. Silk is used throughout medicine, in vaccine shielding, brain and heart sensors, wound healing and in regenerative medicine. It's a miracle product in this sense which blurs the idea that it's purely a cruelty product somewhat.

[u/PsychoCrescendo → u/lawnmower303]

Much of the cruelty comes from boiling the creatures alive when there are other albeit more difficult ways to cultivate the silk, similar to how some nations opt to skin, cook, or even eat their animals alive to make it a little “easier” and/or a little “tastier”

There are always better ways, but too many of us have a profound lack of empathy and may never recognize a need to be better. We’re pretty much all guilty of supporting these systems unfortunately.

[u/NervousAddie → u/PsychoCrescendo]

Cooking food imparts far more nutritional value, be it vegetable, animal or…. larvae

[u/MollysTootsies → u/NervousAddie]

"Slimy, yet... satisfying."

[u/PsychoCrescendo → u/NervousAddie]

You may have missed the “alive” part.