Idk if that titles accurate. It looks like there was a huge disaster affecting production in an important industry (the article says ten percent of income in the region was from silk!) and they’re asking for assistance in recovery.
Instead of boiling the worms alive, maybe they should be left alone and we could just use another type of fabric
For a different kind of moth larva, we put them in a cooler below 40°F for a day, and then remove them and put them under heat lamps. This resets their maturation process and they just crawl out of their cocoons and go back to wandering around like they're high. This is probably one of the most advanced techniques that happens at my work.
There's got to be an economical way to open up silkworm cocoons.
I've sometimes wondered if you could just put them all in some electromagnetic field and just flick a switch to turn their brains off. Obviously not killing them at all is best, but I can't think of many crueler ways than boiling. I hope they find ways to make peace silk more viable.
inert gas asphyxiation, but nobody cares at all about insect welfare. They can't even be bothered to gas pigs with something less painful than CO2 and they're smart as fuck
