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Peace silk requires 10 extra days in the process to let the pupae mature and the moths to hatch out of the cocoons. In contrast, the standard process takes about 15 minutes, killing the pupa as soon as possible after the cocoon is completed. After the moth has emerged and broken the silk fibers, the
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breeding and harvesting. Wild silk moths are bred rather than the domestic variety. It allows the completion of the metamorphosis of the silkworm to its moth stage, whereas most silk harvesting requires the silkworms to be killed in their cocoon stage. No animals suffer or die for the silk to be
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cocoon yields one-sixth of the harvestable filament. This inflates the cost of nonviolent silk, which is priced at roughly 6,000 rupees (US$ 92) per kilogram—about twice the price of the regular kind.
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