Yellow Tea Cup :: B4nch4’s Daily Stuff

Is new goose down pillow suppose to smell like…ehm… animal? because it is still new perhaps? Anyway the smell kinda reminds me of the poor goose whose feathers being plucked to be my pillow stuffing. It must be the most comfy pillow i ever use, but i lay there wondering if the goose suffered when they plucked its feathers? or worse, were they being killed just for the feathers??? I honestly did not think about that when i bought it.

So for my peace of mind, i decided to google it, trying to find some justification of using feather product, and this is what i found:

“Goose will not be slaughtered just for their down, as the meat and other products would never be wasted in this manner. However, some geese suffer live-plucking several times a year. Animal welfare groups consider the collection of down to be a painful procedure and cruel, particularly since birds must undergo down collection repeatedly.”

*Horror*

I hope the goose that contribute its feathers to be the stuffing of my pillow is already dead before they plucked it’s feathers. Jesus, I’ll stick with synthetic next time.