I have to admit I've given little thought to the suffering of the silkworms who created the material for my scarf. I suspect I lack advanced Buddha nature.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Sep 11, 2014 8:09:46 am PDT #5921 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Connie Neil - Sep 11, 2014 8:14:43 am PDT #5922 of 30000
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A closer reading of the thread revealed several people marking Disagree on the woman who began the thread and her worries about doing the right thing by the silkworms. And someone else said she wasn't worried about the fate of bugs, and she's a vegetarian.
Makes me wonder if the Buddhist monks only wear cotton they picked and spun themselves.
There was a side debate on the ethics of shipping things and whether shipping on a boat from Australia was better than trucking things in from Spain (initial poster is in England). Shipping was ruled more ecofriendly.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:14:58 am PDT #5923 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Happy birthday, Trudy!
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:17:14 am PDT #5924 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I suspect I lack advanced Buddha nature.
Every now and then, very well-meaning vegan people try to tell me that eating honey oppresses bees. I remove myself from those conversations very quickly.
My apologies to everyone who woke up ugly tired, because I think I stole all the sleep.
-t - Sep 11, 2014 8:32:09 am PDT #5925 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I do have ethical issues with honey, but they are pretty much the same as I do for mass agri-business in general. I take it a little more personally when hives are mistreated because I do particularly like bees. But if you know the source of your honey you can find out what kind of practices they follow (and verify that your honey is really honey and not a smidgen of honey in a lot of corn syrup).
Silkworms just make me think of how it at least used to be common practice for the women harvesting the silk to steam and eat the silkworms as they went. Efficient!
Tom Scola - Sep 11, 2014 8:33:34 am PDT #5926 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Happy Birthday, Trudy!!
Sue - Sep 11, 2014 8:42:44 am PDT #5927 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Happy birthday Trudy!
Hello from Dublin! I am forcing myself to sit in a pub, bt I'm not going to stay for long.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:43:22 am PDT #5928 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I buy my honey from local beekeepers, precisely because I want to make sure I'm getting actual honey, not honey-flavored corn syrup.
-t - Sep 11, 2014 8:52:20 am PDT #5929 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Then you qualify for the -t approved Ethical Honey Consumer stamp! May be applied to your Goth Card.
Atropa - Sep 11, 2014 8:58:36 am PDT #5930 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Then you qualify for the -t approved Ethical Honey Consumer stamp! May be applied to your Goth Card.
Yay! dips skull spoon back into jar of honey