Behind the Scenes of Force-Feeding and Live Plucking- A True Horror Story

The repulsive practice of force-feeding is a nauseating reality for many geese who suffer at the hands of the food and fashion industry. 🤚❌
However, it is only one of two practices these geese endure in their grim lifetimes; the second being live plucking. The price each innocent animal pays is seen as a mutually beneficial relationship for both the fashion and food industries.
The fashion industry keeps parent geese on farms producing eggs for years.
🥚 Since they are kept longer than geese who are only raised for their meat, and their down grows back finer after each plucking, they are most at risk to be live plucked. Down can be aggressively plucked every 5 weeks from live geese that consciously feel every pluck with open wounds and broken wings left in the fashion industry’s wake.
The eggs are sold to the food industry, which pumps a mixture of corn 🌽 and pure fat into geese to fatten them faster until their livers are 10x their normal size. The abnormal growth leaves geese unable to hold up their body weight. There is no reprieve from force-feeding as the geese endure the long metal pipe being forced down their throats releasing the mixture 3x per day.
You can make a difference in these animals’ lives. The kindest choice you can make is to go down free by choosing alternatives such as PrimaLoft®, Tencel™, Kapok, or FLWRDOWN. If you insist on down you should look for clothes with the labels ✔️ Global Recycle Standard (GRS) or ✔️ the Responsible Down Standard (RDS) but remain aware of that while certifications do bring some value, the down supply chain is inherently high risk.
Pledge to #WearItKind and make it clear to designers, manufacturers, and retailers that we won’t tolerate animal cruelty ➡️ fpau.org/wik-pledge
#DownExposed #AnimalCruelty #EthicalFashion #liveplucking #geese

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That is horrendous - and we call ourselves a civilised society 😢