Bryan is a Canadian living in Japan who breeds silkworms to weave handmade silk and makes fine kimonos from them. In his blog, he writes: "I'll probably be born as a silkworm in my next million lives ( A rough estimate of the number of silkworms I will have raised and then killed in this life.) and for eternity face one of the several choice fates the silkworms have faced because of me...Today I used the hell-hot-roasting-roof to do the trick."
A sad story, reminding me of the price paid to bring things of beauty into this world, often by creatures with no knowledge of their sacrifice. It takes 5,000 silkworm lives to weave one kimono, a process which Bryan repeated seven times last year.
(I first read about Bryan in the Japan Times, but only because Mark Frauenfelder read it first.)
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