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Effete Snob

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Reply to BootinUp (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 22, 2023, 11:38 AM

Sep 2023

https://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/whats-wrong-with-silk/

Silk is the fiber that silkworms weave to make cocoons. To obtain silk, distributors boil the worms alive inside their cocoons. Anyone who has ever seen worms startle when their dark homes are uncovered must acknowledge that worms are sensate—they produce endorphins and have a physical response to pain.

Humane alternatives to silk—including nylon, milkweed seed pod fibers, silk-cotton tree and ceiba tree filaments, polyester, and rayon—are easy to find and usually less expensive, too.

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Gene-edited spider silk 6x stronger than bulletproof Kevlar [View all] BootinUp Sep 2023 OP

I'm worried about the bite from this gene edited Spider Pachamama Sep 2023 #1

Its still a silk worm that produces the spider silk BootinUp Sep 2023 #3

We read the article TNNurse Sep 2023 #2

right but they want to use silk worms BootinUp Sep 2023 #4

. Effete Snob Sep 2023 #5

I know next to nothing about making silk. BootinUp Sep 2023 #6