(June 2, 2013 at 9:31 am)Aractus Wrote: "Sadistic Cruelty"? Kill them painlessly in their sleep is "Sadistic Cruelty"?? If only Crabs were so lucky. Or Cattle. Or Seals. Or, hell just about most other animals - lol - but you call boiling a caterpillar during its dormant state of metamorphosis "Sadistic Cruelty"?!Ok, it seems I neglected to take into account the dormant state of metamorphosis.
How badly do I need silk? Well I hate synthetic fibres. They're bad for the environment, and I don't like them. Also, natural fibres like wool and silk are recyclable, whereas synthetics are not.
Cotton isn't a synthetic fibre, and I think there are other vegan non-synthetics if you must have them. Wool is also very bad for the environment, and a horribly inefficient use of land, as well as being bad for the animals, who have to endure painful procedures without anaesthetic (castration, ear-tagging, tail-docking, mulesing and pizzle-dropping depending on flystrike prevention methods). To produce the desired fine wool, it is often desirable to underfeed the sheep. Since meat is not the main product, farmers don't care if their animals starve, unless it causes them to die, as they have been genetically selected to put their energy primarily into wool growth. Shearing invariably causes painful cuts that can become infected, as shearing is usually rushed because herds contain sheep in their thousands, whose individual needs are not met.
