What order of magnitude of suffering does silk production create?

By rajlego @ 2023-09-30T23:35 (+8)

I find silk-cotton blend clothes more comfortable/better suited to summer weather than any other fabric I've tried. I've previously not thought about insect suffering seriously but a comment by a friend led me to think that maybe I should - does anyone have an idea of what oom silkworm suffering for silk production is/how much I should be expecting to pay in suffering offsets to balance it out?


Timothy Chan @ 2023-10-01T01:05 (+7)

Some relevant numbers in this article: https://reducing-suffering.org/insect-suffering-silk-shellac-carmine-insect-products/

rajlego @ 2023-10-03T01:19 (+1)

Thanks, suffering levels seem sufficiently ambiguous that I'll just avoid silk for now.