A Japanese pesticide company held a memorial service for the killed insects (2 photos)

The Japanese are in their repertoire. It's surprising why the Greens haven't adopted such wonderful practices from them yet.





Japanese pesticide company Earth Corporation held a ceremony at Myodoji Temple in Ako to honor the insects killed during research.

The "transcendence ceremony," as the company calls the event, was attended by 60 Earth Corporation employees and a Taoist priest. He said prayers in front of an altar with dozens of photographs of mosquitoes, ticks, flies and cockroaches who selflessly gave their lives in the name of the business of science.



With its ceremony, the company wants to show that it does not consider sacrificing thousands of insects to be something normal, but it is forced to sacrifice them and they do not die in vain. According to Tomihiro Kobori, head of pharmaceutical research at Earth Corporation, many people take the death of thousands of insects for granted, and their ceremony allows them to look at these things from a different angle.

"Japan's No. 1 Household Insecticide Company" is known to independently raise and keep nearly a million cockroaches, 100 million mites and other insects to test the effectiveness of its products. And the company organizes similar ceremonies of mourning for insects that die for the health and comfort of people every year.