A pesar de que en los años '60 llegaron al mercado los edredones sintéticos, ligeros y calientes, los gansos y patos americanos y europeos todaví­a se crí­an para edredones y rellenos de chaquetas y por su carne.

Until they have eight weeks, Ansas (geese young) feed on a diet 'good for their livers or good for their feathers.'Neither one nor the other are good for them.

White geese are destined to be collapsed by their feathers (soft and fine of young birds), which will get into pillows, jackets and comforters.These geese have particularly uncomfortable lives.They will be collapsed four or five times during their short life.

After the last spoke, when winter is approaching and it is more expensive to heat the sheds than what the feathers would be worth, the geese are killed to take advantage of their meat.

Beauty Without Cruelty Charity.A video shows terrified birds being raised from behind, and how all the feathers of the body are torn.The geese, frantic, fight to escape, twisting the muscles and sometimes breaking their legs.

Birds on their skin have nocireceptors [pain receptors].The follicular wall of the pen rich in general somatic afferent (sensory) fibers and the nerves are present in the muscles of the papilla, which is evidence that the spokesman's process is extremely painful for birds.

The veterinarians, and even geese breeders, call this "extremely cruel," in particular practice.It is also cruel to tie the birds of the birds on their backs while they are collapsed.The collaps are paid by parts and therefore the speed is essential. The experienced workers can start up to one hundred grams of feathers in three or four minutes.

The practice of displays is totally unnecessary, especially today that we have synthetic materials to warm ourselves.No comforter deserves the painful life or the display of any animal capable of feeling pain.