My Pet Caterpillar!

[Catherine]

Quote:Yes....and why can't we do that? The moth has no need for the silk when it has emerged. What is it about humans, that the perfect logical solution is something like that -no cruelty involved -yet we have chosen to do it in the meanest way possible? Simply because we don't care about that life form we call the worm.

We seem to choose cruelty every time. The silk loses a little bit of quality, but it is still good. There would be a bit less profit because we would have to look after the butterflies. We would have to wait longer for the silk. These are details in the big picture which is cruelty vs. compassion. We can live and work with nature without harming it.

We could find kind ways to harvest rabbit fur and goose down. We could shear sheep kindly and the wool would be cruelty free.
Every way that we use animals cruelly, we can find a kinder way to do it.

Let's start with the silkworm. Let us only use cruelty free silk or recycled, reused silk. It is possible to do the right thing here. So let us actually do the right thing.