Here are a couple links to help you draw your own conclusions and make more informed decisions:
The PETA article -- with some photos, but not a video, so you can more easily scrutinize the statements they make: Exposed: Despite 'Responsible Down Standards,' Farms Still Live-Plucking Geese
It's worth noting that PETA's overall stand is that Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. So to that organization, there is no responsible way to harvest down at all.
A response article from the Responsible Down Standard: New Down Standard Faces First Fight With PETA
(not all that well written, but does the job, and gives a starting point to look further)
I know turkey feathers are used in pillows and %of fill in some jackets. On a side note most foul release feather like some animals molt generally once a year but some species up to 3x, Geese feathers are more like quills like a porcupine that are embedded into deeper layers of the skin vs on the surface. So naturally visually it is more graphic and also why other foul were not shown. FYI geese that don't molt migrate and normally those that do normally do so by late July.
Last edited by T- Minus; 10-27-2016 at 15:54.
“ Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.”
~ Bruce Lee
I didn't know that about geese feathers. I haven't actually watched the video, but I've plucked various birds that I've shot before and while I still wouldn't do it live because there's no way it would be pleasant, it's never been gory or gross. Never hunted goose though . . .
With so much evil going on in the world, you can only worry about so much.
To be honest, a goose is near the bottom of my list.
I am more horrified by the millions of people killed in the Middle East and North Africa by Americans over the past 15 years than any plucked goose.
Carll
I'd say this thread has run it's course...
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