Why I was devastated when I found out how my saris had been made

I began following a plant-based lifestyle within about a year of making the shift to a plant-based diet.

I love wearing saris and many of them are made of silk. It's a lovely material which is soft and fragile. But there was a dark side to silk which I had no idea about and I was in tears when I found out.

The process of making silk

Producing silk involves freezing or boiling silkworms whilst they're alive in their cocoons.