Comments on: Fab Fabrics: Spider Silk

By: Mainerd

Mainerd — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Quite an amazing and interesting process. But does it still catch bugs?

By: Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:21:23 +0000

Esther/Live for Truth – Good points! I’m sort of leaning towards nightmare fuel.

By: Ask Netfah from J&O Fabrics

Ask Netfah from J&O Fabrics — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:52:44 +0000

I agree with Live For Truth. There doesn’t seem to be much difference between the forced extraction of milk, eggs or silk. The product may be natural and eco-friendly indeed, but the process….very unnatural. I think we’ll stick to selling fun spider novelty fabric instead! http://bit.ly/1H6R1A
Thanks for the interesting info.

By: Live For Truth

Live For Truth — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:48:44 +0000

Do you honestly believe extracting the silk does not hurt the spider? Does the same go for hooking up the cow to the milking machine, or mass production of chicken eggs to the point the chicken’s uterus falls out. The word “extraction” does not sound very natural. Anything taken in excess is not natural & immoral. Just because you can’t hear a spider scream, or think it does not show emotion, does not mean it does not.

By: Corey Colwell-Lipson

Corey Colwell-Lipson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:31:20 +0000

This puts the EEK in ECO!!

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:30:08 +0000

wow, genetically modifying a dog? That might be a bit overkill. Bacteria might be a better fit (or third world orphans, as suggested by Mom in Futurama).

But I tend to agree. When we think about the energy used to make a product that should include manpower. If all those people were producing food, for example, that would have been energy better spent (…although that presupposes that they had alternative work sources…)

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:24:49 +0000

This is a whimsical comment but really the action of making this cloth must have cost more than a million dollars to make the 11 foot by 4 foot fabric. That’s a pretty whimsical act.

So, what we do is genetically design a dog to excrete this silk out of a few glands, someplace where the dog can’t constantly get at it and eat it.

Then once a day we feed the dog one morsel of food at a time for about a half an hour. When the dog eats you attach the spider web “milking machine” and get the web material. Then all your clothes can be made from this material.