[pct-l] Down collection process

[patti kulesz]

Well that's just great...so they kill them instead of torture them...where did u get this info from ...the Marmot Rep? yeh they will say anything to sell...I've looked up the down process intensely. If one uses "quality down" say 850...it's the small, soft feathers that they just produced...in the neck and pelvic area. the one's that keep their bodies warm and they only produce a few times a year the first few years of their lives....if the geese are killed that's alot of dam geese and I think the merchandise would be alot more expensive in that case. Western Mountaineering rep told me they only used the "molted" feathers....those soft feathers don't molt. It takes about 50 geese's feathers to fill a sleeping bag....
 
So u know I don't judge if people want to use the down that's their bizness...I just don't participate in the hate crimes.



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--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Paul Mitchell <bluebrain at bluebrain.ca> wrote:


From: Paul Mitchell <bluebrain at bluebrain.ca>
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Down collection process
To: "'Bradley Issler'" <bradley.issler at gmail.com>, "'PCT-1'" <pct-l at backcountry.net>, "'patti kulesz'" <peprmintpati88 at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7:19 PM


> Just an interesting FYI, Marmot uses only down that was collected from
dead geese 

Holy crap, they kill them first??

Har har.  ;-)

Nunatak gets their down from a Canadian Hutterite community.  No way to be
sure precisely what that means about the animal treatment, but it's a safe
bet they're far more compassionate than the usual sources in China, etc.

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