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How many silkworms are killed every second, every day, every year?

silkworms · Bombyx mori · estimated
boiled alive in their cocoons
1 trillion
a year
31,688
a second
2.7 billion
a day
hatched for it
1 trillion
a year
31,688
a second
2.7 billion
a day

alive right now, in the queue: about 110 billion (rate × 40 days). average time left: 20 days.

method Rethink Priorities 2023: silk tonnage × cocoons per kg. births ≈ deaths (nearly all reared are killed).

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