Mulberries are around the corner. No silkworms here, but it's those green berries we eagerly wait for.
Thinking of silkworms, how would you define the silkworm-mulberry relationship though? Silkworms love mulberry leaves and feed heavily, and most times exclusively on them.
But, ever since humans have understood that relationship, we've industrialised silk production in a manner that's meant silkworms are killed as soon as the silk is ready, before the moths can break the cocoons and fly through.
Could the silkworm blame the mulberries trees for that treatment, thinking of it as a trap? Or why wouldn't silkworms move onto other trees to make it harder to game their 'industrialisation'?
Visionaries have consciously advanced that process and we do have ahimsa or peace silk now, where moths are allowed to fly before the silk is reclaimed. But centuries of breeding and killing worms has meant, those moths are now somehow 'engineered' to not live long. They die in two odd days even when they fly to freedom.
Some lives are lived in just two days. This mulberry tree we stand beside will hopefully live thousands times longer than that.
Oh what ideas plants can spark. They question us at times, and so many times we don't have answers. They often don't mind, and we just have the mulberries. They are around the corner.
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Amit Bansalpro
Commented 11 Mar, 2021
Apparently mulberry makes one into a philosopher ;-). Who needs weed?