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From: guy@slu70.UUCP (Guy M. Smith)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: what else is hiding out there, as in "bone china"
Message-ID: <153@slu70.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 13:26:17 EST
Article-I.D.: slu70.153
Posted: Mon Feb 10 13:26:17 1986
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References: <877@decwrl.DEC.COM> <150@cornell.UUCP>
Organization: Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
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Summary: poland and china

In article <150@cornell.UUCP>, paf@cornell.UUCP (Peter Fenyes) writes:
> 
> glad you asked - i've always wondered how we get goose down for all
> those nice warm coats. anybody know for sure?
> 
>                                 peter

What my friend in the down garment business told me was that most of it
comes from Poland and China (this information is about ten years old).
My impression was that it is derived from slaughtered geese as he was
complaining about the declining quality of down coming from younger and
younger geese. I presume the same is true of duck down.