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From: jacobson@fluke.UUCP (David Jacobson)
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: what else is hiding out there, as in "bone china"
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:55:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 13:55:44 1986
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> 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?
> 
> A (vegetarian) friend of mine once assured me that geese are merely
> plucked, not skinned.
> -- 
> 
> 					Scott Anderson
> 					ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra

Goose down is a "byproduct" of the European poulty industry.  The reason
the goose down prices went sky high back around '74 or '75 was that 
the European poulty farmers discovered that they got more goose meat
for the money by slaughtering the geese when they were younger.  
Apparently younger geese have not developed much usable down.  I read that
in a backbacking magazine back then.  I can't possibly remember which
one, though.

  -- David Jacobson   ...ihnp4!uw-beaver!fluke!jacobson