After breeding, rearing, and harvesting silkworms, Sevda Eren sells silk to earn a living. “The state should support us to make our labor visible,” she says.
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
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