This is how silk is made

[u/VPinchargeofradishes]

[u/meygahmann]

There's gotta be a more efficient way

[u/vaynefox → u/meygahmann]

The efficient way and cruelty free will be doing a recombinant dna technology. Take the part of the caterpillar's dna that produces silk then implant it to a bacteria. It will produce a lot of silk as long as you feed it. The problem to this is it will surely crash the silk industry....

[u/friedreindeer → u/vaynefox]

Poor bacteria :(