I Sincerely wish members post their posts which are in the form of questions in this section;
I thank Mr Praveen for creating a separate section for this.
Will you be able to stop buying Silk Saree?
All the wondrous qualities of silk come at the price of literally billions of silkworms, all of whom are raised and killed in order to harvest their valuable cocoons. For people trying to live as compassionate a life as possible, there are alternatives. So-called "ahimsa silk" or "peace silk" is made only from cocoons discarded after the moth has naturally emerged. It is marketed and sold by a small number of companies and is an option which some Hindus may find acceptable. Even here though, doubts are justly raised about whether such silk should be called "nonviolent.
Please also read this:
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.
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Sri Swami Chandrashekarendra Saraswati on this:
Our women must give up their fondness for diamonds and silks. This will be great help to our family and social life. Indeed womanhood itself will stand to gain and stridharma will flourish. Woman should think of the millions of silkworms killed to make the sari with which they drape themselves. They claim that they are vegetarians. So should they not feel remorse about being indirectly responsible for the destruction of countless silkworms because of their love of silk sarees? If women of wel lto- do families realise this and stop wearing silk, they will no longer set a bad example to their less fortunate sisters.
Duty of Motherhood: Hindu Dharma by Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Kanchi
How Silk is Made
The Magic of Silk... at What Cost? - Magazine Web Edition > January/February/March 2010 - Publications - Hinduism Today Magazine
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