” Crawling, slithering, wriggling on the mulberry tree;
Savouring the flavour, partaking in the feast ;
Tasting these juicy, sumptuous leaves;
Feasting on those fresh, young green addictions;
Such was my life ,
Happy, innocent and young , without even a strife.
Until the day I start spinning silk,
Preparing myself for hibernation, my delicate sleep;
My own sumptuous cocoon, of fine mine made silk;
But I had not known I was to die,
Killed in my sleep, burned mercilessly ;
By those sadistic, barbaric creations of God;
For their greed, for my silk.
They knew God had spawned me in such a way
If allowed to live, I would break my silk cocoon,
Their money into a million pieces
Little by little their dream would break into many tiny fine silk threads
None fit for their use, none worth me not laying dead.
Gandhi spinned cotton for my existence, to save my life,
PETA campaigned day and night against this rife,
To hell with sacrificing my life
I will not kill my breed, for your greed. “
I have always been fascinated by the beauty and dismay of a Bombyx Mori’s life cycle.
Bombyx Mori is latin for “silkworm of the mulberry tree”
They are boiled alive just after they finish spinning their cocoon. Because If the silkworm is allowed to be alive after, then it releases ‘proteolytic enzymes’ to make a hole in the cocoon so it can emerge as an adult moth. These enzymes are destructive to the silk and can cause the silk fibers to break down from over a mile in length to segments of random length, which seriously reduces the value of the silk threads.
To prevent this, silkworm cocoons are boiled. The heat kills the silkworms and the water makes the cocoons easier to unravel.
So tragic is their life. It seems humans have forgotten the meaning of ’empathy’, have lost their ability to feel.
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Thank you! 🙂
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Reblogged this on Weird Shit with Alex and commented:
I’m mainly about weird around here but I will spread the word around if somebody writes or shares something that I find insightful or interesting.
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Thank you for reblogging Alex and spreading the word 🙂
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I “Like” the knowledge this brings, not the boiling of the worms. I have a gravely relationship with some of the way we collect what we want from the natural world, too much for me to get into here.
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Yes, we humans are deteriorating on this level. It seems greed exceeds empathy these days. 😞
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Very interesting, never knew this, thank you!, Great work!
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Thank you!
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I will never look at silk the same way again
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I too have never see them the same way again.
Who knew behind that beauty lied such tragedy.
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I know… Boiled alive? That’s just cruel… Appreciate the enlightenment👌
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Good God!
I had not known and would have continued my life in ignorance if you wouldn’t have liked my post at nothingcluelesslost.com. In retrospect I often find reason. Looking forward is another challenge. Connecting the dots backwards is (relatively) easy.
Thank you for enlightening me. It begs the question now what do I, we, do, with that knowledge?
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Awareness is the first step. And spreading the knowledge is second. Many people are still unaware of this fact. Doing our bit is very important because every single bit counts. We might not see it, not know it but it counts.
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Such an interesting write up!! Not interesting, sorry feeling sad😢😢 poor worms
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Yes! indeed poor them 😦
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Holy hell! That sucks. I feel better about never being a sick fan! Lol. Your a total Silkworm advocate! What a creative and original post that brought awareness to something I would never have thought about before. Not knowing the true meaning behind these words they have to sound a bit sarcastic – but they’re completely genuine. Groovy post.
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Hahaha… I quite like the way you analysed this post. And the term ‘Silkworm Advocate’ 😁😁
I was very disgusted by this fact when I first came across it. They are even eaten with pleasure after being given a torturous death. And me being a pure vegan I was like ‘ugggh! What the hell?’ So I decided to do my bit to raise awareness.
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Wow, very interesting. .. thanks!
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You are welcome 😁
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